From: "Andrew Lyon" <andrew.lyon@gmail.com>
To: Carlos Vidal <carlos@tarkus.se>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sil 3124 Pci Express?
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:03:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4527be0610281303x2c8144d5kbabb8992b5d8dfa2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dccd9b80610281257w7eaf852s32720753dfb9ee3e@mail.gmail.com>
> I'm using the Stardom SC-SATA-II-X PCI-X card with very good results.
> It has 3+1 ports, 3 internal and one external.
>
> I bought also a Stardom SOHOTANK, a SATA external box with 5 disks
> slots and plugged 3 disks of 750GB each, in Linux RAID5, so I have 1.5
> TB expandable to 3TB at a very low price.
>
> I had to recompile the driver to add the multiport support, thanks to
> Tejun's help in this list. The SOHOTANK is connected with a single
> cable to the external SATA port. I've been testing it for a week now
> and I'm quite satisfied.
>
> I'm running this on a couple of HP DL385 servers, with dual opteron
> 285 dual core and 7GB RAM. The server are used for calculations, not
> too much I/O. Calculations are normally done in the local disk, and
> valuable results are copied to the external RAID. If one of the
> computers is down, the RAID can be plugged to the other one.
>
> Carlos
>
> On 10/28/06, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anybody recommend a Pci Express Sil 3124 card?
> > http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#sii3124 shows that this is the
> > best supported chip, I am looking for a card with 4 or more ports, any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Andy
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Interesting, I'd not considered a card with external sata connector,
I'd completely forgotten about multiport.
Thanks for the info
andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-28 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-28 19:37 Sil 3124 Pci Express? Andrew Lyon
2006-10-28 19:57 ` Carlos Vidal
2006-10-28 20:03 ` Andrew Lyon [this message]
2006-10-28 20:06 ` Andrew Lyon
2006-10-30 17:33 ` Eric D. Mudama
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2006-10-28 20:50 Richard Scobie
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