I'm a fan of the SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8, great card. http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm It's an 8 port PCI-X card, works in both PCI and PCI-X slots. SATA2 Drivers for Linux are stable, built in. You can disable the BIOS to put a LOT of cards into a single machine (I have four in one machine). Costs about $100 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009 Reliable card from a real company. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:44 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. > > the less raid features it has the better since I fear that a raid controller > may initially write some management informationen (signatures etc.) to the > disks and therefore damage the linux raid5 setup. > > And, if possible, it should have low power consumption since it is about to > be used in a small server powered by photovoltaic panels. > > any recommendations aprreciated. > > thanks and best regards. > -- > 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 > -- 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
