Sil 3124 Pci Express?

Sil 3124 Pci Express?

[Andrew Lyon]

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

Re: Sil 3124 Pci Express?

[Carlos Vidal]

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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Re: Sil 3124 Pci Express?

[Andrew Lyon]

> 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

Re: Sil 3124 Pci Express?

[Andrew Lyon]

> 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.

Thats not a PCI Express card is it? its PCI-X... at least thats what
their website says.

I only have 3 PCI slots and all are filled with DVB cards, I have 3
PCI Express free so thats what I need.

Andy

>
> 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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> >
>

Re: Sil 3124 Pci Express?

[Eric D. Mudama]

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?

3124, as was said above, is a PCI-X/PCI chipset.  Most of the
implementations using this chip will work in both normal PCI and PCI-X
slots.

They have a 3132 which is their PCI-e (x1) chipset, but I don't think
they ever made a 4-port version, just the 2-port version.

Re: Sil 3124 Pci Express?

[Richard Scobie]

If you want to use a pair of 2 disk cards, I can recommend the Addonics 
AD2SA3GPX1 card, which is a good price and uses the sil24 driver.

Regards,

Richard