From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Andrewartha Subject: Re: Recommended PCI Express or PCI-X SATA (Raid) Controller? Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:01:31 +0800 Message-ID: <1221595291.23098.8.camel@zarvora> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.107]:31287 "EHLO outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751176AbYIPUMZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:12:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Lyon Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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