[CentOS] External SATA enclosures: SiI3124 and CentOS 5?
Rainer Duffner
rainer at ultra-secure.deTue Jun 2 00:56:20 UTC 2009
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Am 01.06.2009 um 23:57 schrieb Benjamin Smith: > Tired of "little problems" trying to keep 7 drives working in an old > desktop computer, I'm considering an external SATA drive enclosure > with a controller card based on the Sil3124. > http://www.ipcdirect.net/servlet/Detail?no=152 > > I'm a bit concerned about long-term support, namely that the > company's driver page only lists drivers through RedHat 4. > http://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=27&cat=3 > > Does anybody else have experience with this controller? How has it > been for you? > > If you have experience with an external SATA enclosure(s), what did > you use and how did it work for you? > > Promise VTRAK J series - but only with Solaris and on a LSI controller that gives you the SATA-drives as SAS-disks. Very handy for ZFS - but the overall handling (no "this-is-the-bad- drive"-yellow/red light) leaves some room for improvement). BTW: Apple sells these, too. So they should be around for a while... Rainer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090602/ba20a771/attachment-0001.html>
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