Recommended SATA controllers

[Tim Aslat]

In the immortal words of Gary Corcoran  on 05/22/07 08:31:

> I've had drives go bad, such that upon powerup, the Promise controller BIOS
> wouldn't even see the drive.  And later, as the drive got closer to death,
> it started making the *other* drive on the same IDE cable also "fail".
> Removing the dying/dead drive from the cable made the other drive work 
> again.

I've taken the drives out and hooked them up to a different connector 
(external USB2) and they work flawlessly, they are also only about 3 
months old and quite underused as the machine they are in spends more 
time offline than online.

> I'd look into the possible need to replace one of your disk drives...

I'm quite sure the drives are fine.  It's either an incompatibility with 
the FreeBSD & the promise card, or the mainboard is actually on its last 
legs.


I'm going to have to see if I can chase up another board today and see 
if that helps.

Cheers

Tim

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