Re: Looking for PCI/PCIe AHCI controller

2010-07-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:39 AM 7/25/2010, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: Hi, So now I am looking for an add-in SATA card that is supported by the FreeBSD ahci(4) driver. I don't need HW RAID support on the card as I'm running ZFS. I have PCI and PCIe (x1) slots free. I am using an SiL based card to add 4 more drives t

Looking for PCI/PCIe AHCI controller

2010-07-25 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
Hi, My fileserver has grown beyond the 6 SATA drives supported by my Intel DP35DP mainboard. When I add a SATA port multiplier I see a dramatic decrease in throughput compared to directly connected SATA disks (not a big surprise, although the combined throughput is way below 3 Gbit/s). So now I