On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> "Eric D. Mudama" <edmud...@bounceswoosh.org> writes: > > > On Thu, Apr 15 at 23:57, Günther wrote: > >>hello > >> > >>if you are looking for pci-e (8x), i would recommend sas/sata controller > >>with lsi 1068E sas chip. they are nearly perfect with opensolaris. > > > > For just a bit more, you can get the LSI SAS 9211-9i card which is > > 6Gbit/s. It works fine for us, and does JBOD no problem. > > I can't resist getting in a similar questions here. Its not so easy > to really get good info about this subject... there is a lot of info > on the subject but when you remove all pci-e info .. maybe not so > much. > > I will be needing a 4 or more port PCI sata controller soon and would > like to get one that can make use of the newest sata (alleged) 3GB > transfer rates. > > It's older base hardware... athlon64 3400+ 2.2 ghz 3GB Ram > With A-open AK86-L Motherboard. > > So what do any of you know about a PCI card that fills the bill? > > > If you're talking about standard PCI, and not PCI-e or PCI-X, there's no reason to try to get a faster controller. A standard PCI slot can't even max out the first revision of SATA. --Tim
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