"dumb" SATA controller recommendation

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Adaptec have this pretty cheap SATA controller that uses the Sil3112, 
i'm not sure of the model but is on their website and i have seen them 
in computer stores here. I am cirtain that it uses a Sil311x chip.

Peter

Chris Mauritz wrote:

> David Thompson wrote:
>
>> Chris Mauritz wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Just wondering if any 4.2 users out there have a favourite "dumb" 
>>> PCI controller to add a couple of SATA ports to a motherboard that 
>>> doesn't include SATA support.  I'm not looking for anything fancy, 
>>> just 2 SATA ports that a recent vintage kernel will recognize 
>>> without a lot of configuration gymnastics.  The intended use is for 
>>> relatively light weight internet browser workstations for younger 
>>> students.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I benchmarked a number of low-end sata controllers for add-on, JBOD 
>> applications, and found that some give significantly lower 
>> performance than others.  One of the good cards performance-wise 
>> turned out to be based on a SiI 3112 chipset, delivering performance 
>> very similar to intel's ICH6 (i865-based) motherboard sata 
>> controllers, and better than any others I found. That being said, I 
>> have not been able to deploy that card in a PCI-X based system; it 
>> hangs the (64-bit PCI-X) bus and won't let the computer boot.
>>
>> We use lots of 3ware sata controllers, and for jbod, they deliver 
>> significantly lower performance than either the ICH6- or 3112- based 
>> controllers.
>>
>> So I'm also looking for a 'yeah, it's cheap, it just works, and it 
>> delivers the full performance of the disk' sata controller.
>>  
>>
>
> Well, these are just a bunch of old i810e and i815 boards running P3 
> processors on a standard PCI bus.  So I'll have to find a guinea pig 
> SiL3112 board to try (any particular brand?).  I don't really even 
> care if they're that cheap, but they're only going to be used as dumb 
> controllers so RAID isn't really necessary.  I donated a bunch of 
> these systems to a school and agreed to help them integrate things 
> with CentOS as the OS.  Another donor bought a big box of SATA drives 
> (the systems originally had a bunch of rather old 20gig quantum 
> fireball drives) so I'm trying to help them combine both gifts without 
> an undue amount of support for them down the road.
>
> Cheers,
>
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