From: James Andrewartha <jamesa@daa.com.au>
To: Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recommended PCI Express or PCI-X SATA (Raid) Controller?
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:01:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1221595291.23098.8.camel@zarvora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4527be0809130200i23053c1m34855368bac129c7@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 10:00 +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> I want to add a PCI Express or PCI-X SATA Controller to my system for
> an additional 2 or 4 sata ports, however I am running Xen so I am
> stuck with a older kernel version, gentoo xen 2.6.21 has proved to be
> fairly stable on my hardware but I may attempt to upgrade to 2.6.25 if
> necessary, can anybody recommend a pci-x or pci express sata
> controller with 2 or 4 ports that has been well supported since at
> least 2.6.21?
>
> I assumed that any real hardware raid device would be beyond my budget
> but I might just be able to afford a Areca ICAe1210, has anybody used
> Areca cards with older kernels?
The Sil 3132 is a good 2-port PCIe controller, or the 3124 is 4 ports on
PCI-X. Going up a bit, the supermicro AOC-USAS-S8i is an 8-port PCIe SAS
controller based on the LSISAS1068E which has had a Linux driver for a
while, but I don't know what the support for SATA drives on it in Linux
is like.
The Areca cards are good and have drivers for older kernels (2.6.18 if
not earlier).
James Andrewartha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-16 20:12 UTC|newest]
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2008-09-13 9:00 Recommended PCI Express or PCI-X SATA (Raid) Controller? Andrew Lyon
2008-09-16 20:01 ` James Andrewartha [this message]
2008-09-17 14:36 ` Andrew Lyon
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