Hi Steve, Steve Fairbairn wrote: <snip> > Is anyone using an array with disks on PCI interface cards? Almost, I have a Sil3132 PCI-E card (2 port SATA-300) mixed with 6 on board ports (on Asus M2N-E mobo). No problems there, I quite pleased with it. > Is there an issue with mixing motherboard interfaces and PCI card based > ones? Not fundamentally. Speed issues may depend on whether the PCI bus to the sockets is shared with the on board SATA chip, or if they are off different busses. > Does anyone recommend any inexpensive (probably SATA-II) PCI interface > cards? Unfortunately, the SiL3132 doesn't have an obvious PCI sibling. You might consider a SiL3124 based card: http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=27 example card here: http://www.satacard.com/ Price isn't so cheap though. If you can drop to SATA-150 (SATA I) then you get the SiL3114 chips which are much more common (=cheap). I can't vouch personally for those other chips, but I remember seeing favourable reviews when I was searching for for SATA controllers. Sorry I can't be of more help - just chucking some ideas back... Cheers Tim - 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
