Given the current kernel (2.6.22.8), which SATA chipset would you feel most comfortable plugging in to achieve: - 16 1TB Hitachi 7K1000 drives - NCQ support - Kernel md RAID (ie hardware RAID not necessary) - Max transfer rate to OS (PCIe should handle 16 drives given their current transfer rate?) (Assuming the required number of chips of any chipset could be made available on the bus.) If support for SiI chips is the most robust, would multiple SiI3124/SiI3132 chips be most reliable? Or is support for something like a Marvell 88SX6081 good enough so that only 2 chips are needed?. I have not owned any of these chips, and my impression is that the SiI chips have some of the most robust support. The comments at the top of sata_mv.c scare me, even if they might be out of date... :) What about port multiplier support? Do they ever introduce stability problems with the drivers? Is native libata support for high-density Areca cards planned? Does anyone know if the manufacturer driver is good enough to rely on for the above config to "just work"? I'd personally like to stay within libata. (Comments from any Areca Linux users with an ARC-1261ML? http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie341.htm) Thanks in advance, -Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
