On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Tim Cook <t...@cook.ms> writes: > > > 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. > > Ahh good to know. So will sata2 drives have any trouble with a plain > pci sata controller. > > I have no option for pci-e or whatever. just PCI. And I need at > least a 4 port, whether its faster or not. > > They'll work just fine, they'll just be very, very slow. IIRC, standard PCI is limited to 33MB/sec. --Tim
_______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
