On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Rainer Fuegenstein <rfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi, > > I need to move my 4 disk raid5 array from a motherboard with 4 onboard SATA > ports to a mainboard with just 2 ports. therefore I'm looking for a reliable > and inexpensive 4port PCI controller. Rainer, The support chips are not always available in all flavors of PCI, so you need to specify which flavor PCI slots your mother board has. I don't recall seeing a non-raid 4-port "legacy PCI" controller, but I can't say I've looked very hard. Hopefully your motherboard has a "PCI express" slot available. If PCI is all you have, I would go with a pair of SiiG controllers. 2-ports each, but they only cost $30 or so. I have a dozen machines at least with the 2-port SiiG PCI controllers in them and have had no issues with linus drivers, etc. Greg -- 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
