On 9/9/06, Dale Ghent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 9, 2006, at 12:04 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Thanks, that seems fairly clear. So another approach I could take is
> to buy one of the supported controllers, if they're available on a
> card I could plug in.
The Silicon Image chipset is pretty popular and can be found on many
SATA and eSATA cards, such as this one:
http://cooldrives.com/seata1ex1inp.html
If I'm reading that right, it's SATA, not SATA II. Also it's one
internal plus one external port; my motherboard currently has 7
internal plus 1 external port, I don't have enough slots to replace
the internal ports with this card. However, there's a Supermicro card
based on the Marvell that gives 8 ports in one slot, so I have options
this direction.
> The porting of ZFS to Linux may also eventually solve my problem.
>
> I'm going to try installing the nv44 I've got, just in case that might
> have advanced the driver state of the art.
Even in nv44, the SATA framework still contains only two drivers, one
for the Silicon Image sil3124 and the other for the Marvell 88SX6xxx.
So as of today, you're still limited to using SATA controllers based
on those two chipsets (at least they're popular chipsets for SATA add-
on cards).
Yep, that's the outcome all right.
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