On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 10:00 +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > I want to add a PCI Express or PCI-X SATA Controller to my system for > an additional 2 or 4 sata ports, however I am running Xen so I am > stuck with a older kernel version, gentoo xen 2.6.21 has proved to be > fairly stable on my hardware but I may attempt to upgrade to 2.6.25 if > necessary, can anybody recommend a pci-x or pci express sata > controller with 2 or 4 ports that has been well supported since at > least 2.6.21? > > I assumed that any real hardware raid device would be beyond my budget > but I might just be able to afford a Areca ICAe1210, has anybody used > Areca cards with older kernels? The Sil 3132 is a good 2-port PCIe controller, or the 3124 is 4 ports on PCI-X. Going up a bit, the supermicro AOC-USAS-S8i is an 8-port PCIe SAS controller based on the LSISAS1068E which has had a Linux driver for a while, but I don't know what the support for SATA drives on it in Linux is like. The Areca cards are good and have drivers for older kernels (2.6.18 if not earlier). James Andrewartha -- 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
