Re: Opteron Mobo Suggestions -- again, get a mainboard with an AMD8131 (it's that simple)

[loony at loonybin.org (Peter Arremann)]

On Friday 24 June 2005 03:24, Feizhou wrote:
> Do you have any information on PCIe storage controllers?
Fibre
Emulex: http://www.emulex.com/products/fc/index.html
QLogic: http://www.qlogic.com/products/fc_san_hostadapers.asp

Scsi
Intel: http://www.intel.com/design/servers/RAID/srcu42e/
LSI: http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/megaraid_320_2e.html

SATA
Tekram/Areca: http://www.tekram.com/raidcrd.asp

In all - not really worth it right now in my opinion... might be faster than 
PCI-X but all the options above are fairly new - therefore untested and 
probably more difficult to set up than you'd expect. 



> I have googled and gone here and there but not found anything.
>
> Do you know of any card that supports more than 4 SATA ports without a
> dumb fakeraid tacked on? Just a pure SATA card with more than 4 ports.
Unfortunately that will be virtually impossible to find... If you want more 
than 4 ports, a real raid card will probably be your only option. 
Some fakeraid controllers allow you to completely disable the firmware though 
- I'm sure you've read through it - but just in case you didn't... 
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

Peter.