Re: Inexpensive PCI SATA, anyone?

Mike Tancsa <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hardware
Organization Sentex Communications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/23/2014 1:22 PM, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> Seems to be too thick for 1U...

You could look at some of the 3ware cards on ebay. The 96xx series can 
be used as JBOD if you are looking for just a lot of disks.  Ebay has 
them, and the card works quite well using the twa driver.

	---Mike

>
> On 23.07.2014 21:11, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>
>> With a lot of trial and error, the one card that works well for us in
>> a backup server with 16 drives is
>>
>> http://www.addonics.com/products/adsa3gpx8-4e.php
>>
>> it shows up as
>>
>> pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
>> siis0: <SiI3124 SATA controller> port 0x3000-0x300f mem
>> 0xb4408000-0xb440807f,0xb4400000-0xb4407fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
>> siisch0: <SIIS channel> at channel 0 on siis0
>> siisch1: <SIIS channel> at channel 1 on siis0
>> siisch2: <SIIS channel> at channel 2 on siis0
>> siisch3: <SIIS channel> at channel 3 on siis0
>>
>> # pciconf -lvcb siis0
>> siis0@pci0:5:0:0:       class=0x010400 card=0x71241095 chip=0x31241095
>> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>>     vendor     = 'Silicon Image, Inc.'
>>     device     = 'SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial ATA Controller'
>>     class      = mass storage
>>     subclass   = RAID
>>     bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xb4408000, size 128,
>> enabled
>>     bar   [18] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xb4400000, size 32768,
>> enabled
>>     bar   [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x3000, size 16, enabled
>>     cap 01[64] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
>>     cap 07[40] = PCI-X 64-bit supports 133MHz, 2048 burst read, 12
>> split transactions
>>     cap 05[54] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
>>
>> Its PCIX chip on a PCIe bus
>>
>>     ---Mike
>>
>>
>
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