On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote: > I need to get a PCI-X SATA card. Two drives is fine, or 8, even tho I can't > fit 8 drives in the box. This is for bulk storage, so I don't mind if it can > only handle 100 Mhz or even less. My mainboard can't go over 133 Mhz. They > are 64 bit 3.3v slots. > > One thing I don't want is RAID; I will be using LVM to roll my own. But if a > RAID card can handle dissimilar drives in a non-RAID fashion, that's fine by > me. > > Running ~amd64.
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. They were marked as RAID cards, but it's software raid, and I only wanted them as AHCI SATA controllers anyhow. As it happens, they work in PCI slots as well as PCI-X slots. -- :wq
