From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew Lyon" Subject: Re: Sil 3124 Pci Express? Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:03:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <9dccd9b80610281257w7eaf852s32720753dfb9ee3e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]:40783 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751381AbWJ1UDE (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:03:04 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c2so1705255nfe for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:03:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9dccd9b80610281257w7eaf852s32720753dfb9ee3e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Carlos Vidal Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > 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 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 > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > Interesting, I'd not considered a card with external sata connector, I'd completely forgotten about multiport. Thanks for the info andy