From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Subject: Re: 8-port SATA PCI/PCIX adaptor Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:52:21 -0600 Message-ID: <20050402155221.GA22746@lists.us.dell.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Gordon Henderson Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:04:48PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > The cheaper cards that I've used seem to have mostly the SII chipset - and > that appears to be well supported by Linux. The 3112 is a dual-port card, > the 3114, quad. There are RAID and non-RAID variants, and all the ones > I've used seem to have a JBOD mode anyway (so you use s/w RAID rather than > their supplied h/w RAID) (The exception would seem to be the Dell/Adaptec > 6-port SATA card I had recently - it has 3 x SII 3112 chips on it, and a > big Adaptec/Dell chip which hides them from bus )-: The Dell CERC SATA 1.5/6ch cards use the standard aacraid driver, so no worries about unavailable/closed-source drivers there. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com