<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>Am 01.06.2009 um 23:57 schrieb Benjamin Smith:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; ">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a href="http://www.ipcdirect.net/servlet/Detail?no=152">http://www.ipcdirect.net/servlet/Detail?no=152</a><br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div>I'm a bit concerned about long-term support, namely that the company's driver page only lists drivers through RedHat 4.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a href="http://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=27&cat=3">http://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=27&cat=3</a><br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div>Does anybody else have experience with this controller? How has it been for you?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div>If you have experience with an external SATA enclosure(s), what did you use and how did it work for you?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div><br></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Promise VTRAK J series - but only with Solaris and on a LSI controller that gives you the SATA-drives as SAS-disks.</div><div>Very handy for ZFS - but the overall handling (no "this-is-the-bad-drive"-yellow/red light) leaves some room for improvement).</div><div><br></div><div>BTW: Apple sells these, too. So they should be around for a while...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Rainer</div></body></html>