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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