Thomas Hurst
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:06:45 -0800
* Jeremy Chadwick (free...@jdc.parodius.com) wrote: > It's been mentioned in the past that for "simple" SATA expansion cards, > a good/affordable choice at this point are cards using the Silicon Image > 3124/3132/3531 chips (driven by the siis(4) driver). Avoid the 3112. > > The reason I say that (despite not having any experience with them) is > there's active development on that driver by mav@, and SI is apparently > fairly forthcoming with docs/quirks.
That's interesting, thanks. I'll see if I can find any.
> I personally stick solely to on-board SATA driven by Intel controllers
> (ICH7/9/10 or ESB), but if I had to get an expansion card, at this point
> I'd probably go the SI 3124 route.
Yes, I'm planning on replacing my dual Opteron with a single-socket Xeon
for more memory/CPU; it has 6 on-board AHCI interfaces, and I guess a
simple two port card would do for the rest.
--
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
http://hur.st/
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