Greg Freemyer wrote: > 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. > There is an Addonics PCI card that will do what you want. http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/adsa3r5-e.asp . I have one of those. Advantages: - PCI V2.3 66MHz compliant. It will deploy 2.6Gbits/sec. - Low profile - RAID fetature - Support PMP - Esata Disadvantages: - Price - RAID needs to be set on Windows machine Check it out... Rui > 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 > > > > -- Regards, Rui Santos -- 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
