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
