Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
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. It came, I installed it, it shows a BIOS page on reboot, and lspci knows about it. However, the two drives on it are unrecognized. Does this require some specific kernel options or modules or firmware? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, fe...@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. It came, I installed it, it shows a BIOS page on reboot, and lspci knows about it. However, the two drives on it are unrecognized. Does this require some specific kernel options or modules or firmware? Aiieee! For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT sata_mv. I'll report back in a while -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, fe...@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. It came, I installed it, it shows a BIOS page on reboot, and lspci knows about it. However, the two drives on it are unrecognized. Does this require some specific kernel options or modules or firmware? Aiieee! For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT sata_mv. I'll report back in a while You should be able to put it in AHCI mode somewhere in the BIOS/settings and be able to use the ahci driver instead. I have this similar chipset and use ahci driver with no problems: SATA controller [0106]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9128 PCIe SATA 6 Gb/s RAID controller [1b4b:9128] (rev 11)
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:45:27AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Aiieee! For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT sata_mv. I'll report back in a while That did it. I now have 8TB of new drive to play with. Thanks for the card recommendation and all the patience :-) -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On 24/06/12 00:20, fe...@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
[gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
I need to get a PCI-X SATA card. Two drives is fine, or 8, even tho I can't fit 8 drives in the box. This is for bulk storage, so I don't mind if it can only handle 100 Mhz or even less. My mainboard can't go over 133 Mhz. They are 64 bit 3.3v slots. One thing I don't want is RAID; I will be using LVM to roll my own. But if a RAID card can handle dissimilar drives in a non-RAID fashion, that's fine by me. Running ~amd64. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I need to get a PCI-X SATA card. Two drives is fine, or 8, even tho I can't fit 8 drives in the box. This is for bulk storage, so I don't mind if it can only handle 100 Mhz or even less. My mainboard can't go over 133 Mhz. They are 64 bit 3.3v slots. One thing I don't want is RAID; I will be using LVM to roll my own. But if a RAID card can handle dissimilar drives in a non-RAID fashion, that's fine by me. Running ~amd64. 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. They were marked as RAID cards, but it's software raid, and I only wanted them as AHCI SATA controllers anyhow. As it happens, they work in PCI slots as well as PCI-X slots. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
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. They were marked as RAID cards, but it's software raid, and I only wanted them as AHCI SATA controllers anyhow. As it happens, they work in PCI slots as well as PCI-X slots. Hmmm ... that's one I bookmarked, but I am curious how they claim 8 port when it only has three connectors? Newegg's pictures aren't clear enough for me to figure that out. Is it two on the back and three doublt-ports on the front? How well do they work? I suppose must be good enough to recommend it :-) Do you actually have 8 drives connected to one? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM, fe...@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. They were marked as RAID cards, but it's software raid, and I only wanted them as AHCI SATA controllers anyhow. As it happens, they work in PCI slots as well as PCI-X slots. Hmmm ... that's one I bookmarked, but I am curious how they claim 8 port when it only has three connectors? Newegg's pictures aren't clear enough for me to figure that out. Is it two on the back and three doublt-ports on the front? How well do they work? I suppose must be good enough to recommend it :-) Do you actually have 8 drives connected to one? There are 8 ports, but I'm only currently using three. Here's a pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28208534@N07/7428312264/ (The big passive heat sink is on the NVidia GeForce 210 in the system. Neither component has had heat issues in this configuration) There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8. The reason I'm only using 3? This system doesn't have PCI-X, only PCIe and PCI. So I want as much as reasonable plugged into the mainboard's SATA ports. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8. How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles? My tower is pretty full, but some of that is 3 SCSI drives, and I may at some point change all three to a single SSD drive and put in two more 4T drives. The reason I'm only using 3? This system doesn't have PCI-X, only PCIe and PCI. So I want as much as reasonable plugged into the mainboard's SATA ports. Why not use the PCIe slots for SATA to get more speed? I suppose you could just want bulk where speed is not essential, or they could be full -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8. How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles? Um, pretty easy? Same as how difficult it might be to plug one into your motherboard. My tower is pretty full, but some of that is 3 SCSI drives, and I may at some point change all three to a single SSD drive and put in two more 4T drives. Sure. The reason I'm only using 3? This system doesn't have PCI-X, only PCIe and PCI. So I want as much as reasonable plugged into the mainboard's SATA ports. Why not use the PCIe slots for SATA to get more speed? I suppose you could just want bulk where speed is not essential, or they could be full I didn't have non-GPU PCIe slots when I bought the cards, and I don't have a PCIe SATA controller. When I bought the cards, I did happen to have a prescott-based dual-xeon system with a couple PCI-X slots I wanted to take advantage of. It only took a couple days' having that machine powered up before I realized I didn't need that powerful of an electric space heater in my apartment... The one thing I'd really like to change over what I've got...I'd like to have the correct-length SATA cables, rather than having plenty of SATA cables all of worst-case length. Well, the other thing I'd like to change is use hot-swap bays instead of the semi-fixed bays I've got. Then I wouldn't need to move cables around if I need to remove drives. (That got to be a problem earlier this week.) But that's not the fault of the controller. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:00:01PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles? ..two... Botched that one! Well, doesn't matter; I ordered one, and it is what it is. I reckon it must be possible, and I don't think I can get that many drives in the tower. I did look at another card which has two SATA connectors inside and two eSata, but I think USB 3 will be better, if I can find a good PCI-X USB 3 card. But that's for later, I don't need it yet. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 7:13 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:00:01PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles? ..two... Botched that one! Well, doesn't matter; I ordered one, and it is what it is. I reckon it must be possible, and I don't think I can get that many drives in the tower. I did look at another card which has two SATA connectors inside and two eSata, but I think USB 3 will be better, if I can find a good PCI-X USB 3 card. But that's for later, I don't need it yet. Thanks. Any time. :) -- :wq
