Gaby vanhegan wrote:
On 14 Feb 2006, at 20:18, Brandon Mercer wrote:
Has anybody managed to get the CERC SATA raid controller running
on 3.8 or 3.9-stable? Alternatively, where's the cheapest source
of LSI SATA cards? Can I boot from a system installed on an LSI
card?
LSI cards, as has been talked to death in the archives, are GREAT
cards, of course the work and boot properly. :-) Also, newegg
usually has them at a good price. Brandon
Unfortunately:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16816118007
Looks like we'll be spending a bit more cash on this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16816118015
The LSI Megaraid SATA is the way to go anyway. :-)
I'm intrigued by the comment:
Although it will function in a PCI slot,the throughput is marginal
even with 4 x 36 gig raptors in RAID 0. I was expecting at least
150 mbps transfer rates and Im only geting 80. Technical support
was knowlegable and I didn't have to wait more than 5 minutes to
talk to someone. The informed me that this card performs best in a
64 bit/100 mhz slot such as a server board. IMHO its price is not
justified vs the performance in a 32 bit system
Gaby.... they wouldn't really make it 64bit if it didn't need to be 64
bit. Think about the PCI bus...
The application we have for the server does not require heavy data-
throughput, so this bottleneck wouldn't be too much of a problem,
If you were worried about this type of bottleneck you'd need to use
scsi's anyway ;-)
but
if I can spend a few more quid on a different mobo to get double the
speed, I'd like to. What am I looking for here, motherboards that
will take a 64 bit CPU and have 100Mhz PCI slots? That's a PCI-X
card, no?
Tis a 64 bit pci card as shown in the pictures and description.
Brandon
