For what i've read so far: there's a Supermicro card that seems to work,
but it's apparently a reversed card of some sort. That is the one of
the few non-RAID card that is supported under FreeBSD besides some
Sil-chipset-based ones.
The Adaptec ASC-1405 (and Areca's 1300i as well) are both non-RAID cards
based on Marvell's 88SE6440-chip, but there is no driver-support for
these cards. I have the Adaptec-card, and am hoping that this chip will
get support in FreeBSD. Areca has put on their website that the driver
for FreeBSD will be made available somewehere in Q1/Q2 of 2010 (just
like Adaptec, they claim FreeBSD-support on the box and in their
marketing but haven't got a driver, although the card has some support
from the Linux-community).
I haven't found any decent card yet with more than 2 SATA-ports that
have FreeBSD-support that aren't RAID-cards (at least in NL)
Lev Serebryakov wrote:
Hello, Freebsd-hardware.
I have hjome storage server, which is equipped with 6 HDDs (one with
system and five for geom_raid5 in SuperMicro SATA hot-swap cage).
I need add more HDDs :)
What is better: PICe SATA controller or SATA port multiplier?
Is here SATA port multipliers for internal installation?
Which PCIe controllers (pure controllers, I don't want to pay
additional money for soft-RAID and I don't have budget for true SATA
RAID) works best with FreeBSD?
Maybe, here is good-but-not-too-expensive hotswap cages with port
multipliers (my one have 5 SATA connectors on backplane for 5
HDDs)?
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