From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: what is the best multi-SATA-controller-on-a-single-board out there? Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:55:09 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <410F52ED.9070403@buttersideup.com> References: <20040730234706.M12321@contactbda.com> <20040801150258.M30882@contactbda.com> <1091382829.11770.14.camel@tinny.home.foo> <410E15EB.7030407@buttersideup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Jon Lewis wrote: >On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Tim Small wrote: > > >>The Promise cards, are cheap, but only do 66Mhz/32 bit PCI and provide >>four SATA ports, so they may not be well suited to some boards.. Both >>chipsets were used with libata on 2.6 kernels, with a mixture of s/w >>raid5, and s/w raid1. The only slight irritation is the current lack of >>smartd support (pending libata driver support). >> >> > >With what distros / exactly which kernels? I've been testing a system > > I'm using kernel.org 2.6.8rc2 (also used 2.6.5rc3), with libata on Debian/Sarge (not that the distribution should matter, this is all kernel side stuff) - both on Xeons, and Opterons, all filesystems are ext3. I was expecting to have some hassle with these systems, but have had none up to now (in service a few months). The revised (minor) shortcoming list is: . Sustained throughput not as high as the PATA based arrays (yet) . No hot-plug support (yet) . No smartd support (yet) Tim.