Inexpensive PCI SATA, anyone?

[Alex Povolotsky]

Okay, I'll try. Marvell-based 4 SATA controller fails even to boot on my 
hp dl 165 g5 :( maybe some tricky BIOS thing?

On 23.07.2014 21:43, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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 at 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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