Any Silicon Image card will do, don't worry about the fake-raid bios, don't define anything under the fake-raid bios, and the kernel will see the Silicon Image chip and connected disks readily. The kernel module for Silicon Image 3124 was there for long time. I have installations which use such SATA chips running for a few years.
My 2 cents.
Regards, Stephen WONG
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.chan@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
On Thursday, February 25, 2010 08:57 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
On Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:56 AM, Tim Nelson wrote:
Greetings all-
I need to purchase a PCIe SATA or SAS controller(non-raid) for a Supermicro 2U system. It should be directly bootable. Any recommendations? The system will be running CentOS 5.4 as an LTSP system. Thanks!
Anything that uses a Silicon Image 3124 chip would do. The challenge is to find one that does not try to fleece you just for a fake-raid bios.
we still don't know what SAS/SATA backplane his 2U chassis has, so its premature to specify the controller.
Ah, I assumed the OP knows what he wants.
IMHO, the SIL stuff is weak sauce for a server, and totally unsuitable for a server using a SAS backplane.
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So what chipset would you recommend for non-raid, SATA solution?
Marvell? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos