From: Alyf <alyf@alyf.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:24:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE6EAD0.2010904@alyf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120623222023.GH5083@crowfix.com>
On 24/06/12 00:20, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I
>> picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully.
I second the recommendation. Don't know about the specific model sold on
newegg, but these are generally easy to find used for a good price on ebay:
http://www.alyf.net/pictures/E%27%20arrivato%20babbo%20natale/pics/STP85650.jpg
I have a couple of them in a storage server running linux; the driver is
stable and they work well with hotplug backplanes.
The Marvell chip itself, although not very common as a stand-alone
device, was used as the SATA front-end in a lot of high-end RAID cards
(e.g. Areca 1280, 3ware 3550,...)
I can also confirm that these cards work with port multipliers in FIS
mode, although hotplug sometimes breaks when using PMPs.
andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-24 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-23 20:33 [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards? felix
2012-06-23 22:05 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-23 22:20 ` felix
2012-06-23 22:32 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-23 22:48 ` felix
2012-06-23 23:00 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-23 23:13 ` felix
2012-06-23 23:18 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-24 10:24 ` Alyf [this message]
2012-06-29 16:57 ` felix
2012-06-29 17:45 ` felix
2012-06-29 18:13 ` Paul Hartman
2012-06-29 19:24 ` felix
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