On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:04:48PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > The cheaper cards that I've used seem to have mostly the SII chipset - and > > that appears to be well supported by Linux. The 3112 is a dual-port card, > > the 3114, quad. There are RAID and non-RAID variants, and all the ones > > I've used seem to have a JBOD mode anyway (so you use s/w RAID rather than > > their supplied h/w RAID) (The exception would seem to be the Dell/Adaptec > > 6-port SATA card I had recently - it has 3 x SII 3112 chips on it, and a > > big Adaptec/Dell chip which hides them from bus )-: > > The Dell CERC SATA 1.5/6ch cards use the standard aacraid driver, so > no worries about unavailable/closed-source drivers there. Ah, intersting. I must have a look at it one day. I got it in a free Dell server I got when I ordered a bunch of other Dell stuff. I've no idea why they included it, as the on-board SATA ports seem to work just as well. I didn't really have time to play with it as the client wanted it online sooner rather than later, so it's currently whirring away with the drives on the on-board (Intel) controller using s/w RAID... Cheers, Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
