Re: Sata controller headache / good and cheap sata controller?

Paul Bliss wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Richard.
>
> Finding a passable sata controller has been very frustrating. I at
> first
> had a Silicon Images controller which my first round of research
> indicated
> would be ok, but later found more info that reported some bad behavior
> (after the machine was being depended upon, of course)
>   Then I switched to this Promise FastTrak tx2300, which again, people
> were
> saying some good things about. Ugh.
>
> So does anyone know of a cheap SATA controller (Raid is unimportant)
> that
> will work well with FreeBSD 6.1?

I only use 3ware cards now. I had similar experiences to you. You can
get them pretty cheap now, at least here in the UK. I've used the 8000
and 9000 series and had not a peep of a problem. I don't use RAID
features either by the way.

Dominic