On 7/23/2014 1:22 PM, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
Seems to be too thick for 1U...
You could look at some of the 3ware cards on ebay. The 96xx series can
be used as JBOD if you are looking for just a lot of disks. Ebay has
them, and the card works quite well using the twa driver.
---Mike
On 23.07.2014 21:11, Mike Tancsa wrote:
With a lot of trial and error, the one card that works well for us in
a backup server with 16 drives is
http://www.addonics.com/products/adsa3gpx8-4e.php
it shows up as
pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
siis0: <SiI3124 SATA controller> port 0x3000-0x300f mem
0xb4408000-0xb440807f,0xb4400000-0xb4407fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
siisch0: <SIIS channel> at channel 0 on siis0
siisch1: <SIIS channel> at channel 1 on siis0
siisch2: <SIIS channel> at channel 2 on siis0
siisch3: <SIIS channel> at channel 3 on siis0
# pciconf -lvcb siis0
siis0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x71241095 chip=0x31241095
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Silicon Image, Inc.'
device = 'SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial ATA Controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = RAID
bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xb4408000, size 128,
enabled
bar [18] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xb4400000, size 32768,
enabled
bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x3000, size 16, enabled
cap 01[64] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0
cap 07[40] = PCI-X 64-bit supports 133MHz, 2048 burst read, 12
split transactions
cap 05[54] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
Its PCIX chip on a PCIe bus
---Mike
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