Hi Christopher, On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:25:35 Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home > media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large > numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been > unable to find any consensus on their level of support in FreeBSD. I'm > currently looking at a RocketRAID 2314 and SiI3726 based port > multipliers. Has any had any experience with this combination?
The Sil3726 works very well if you run a recent enough version of FreeBSD. We use the device in a custom storage appliance. I don't know the RocketRAID 2314 though. You need a SATA 2.0 controller for Port Multipliers to work. FreeBSD has (experimental) support for Port Multipliers since the following commit : On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:05:05 Søren Schmidt wrote: > sos 2008-04-10 13:05:05 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository ... > Log: > Add experimental support for SATA Port Multipliers > > Support is working on the Silicon Image SiI3124/3132. > Support is working on some AHCI chips but far from all. > > Remember this is WIP, so test reports and (constructive) suggestions are > welcome! Regards, -- Daan Vreeken VEHosting http://VEHosting.nl tel: +31-(0)40-7113050 / +31-(0)6-46210825 KvK nr: 17174380 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
