Adaptec have this pretty cheap SATA controller that uses the Sil3112, i'm not sure of the model but is on their website and i have seen them in computer stores here. I am cirtain that it uses a Sil311x chip. Peter Chris Mauritz wrote: > David Thompson wrote: > >> Chris Mauritz wrote: >> >> >>> Just wondering if any 4.2 users out there have a favourite "dumb" >>> PCI controller to add a couple of SATA ports to a motherboard that >>> doesn't include SATA support. I'm not looking for anything fancy, >>> just 2 SATA ports that a recent vintage kernel will recognize >>> without a lot of configuration gymnastics. The intended use is for >>> relatively light weight internet browser workstations for younger >>> students. >>> >> >> >> I benchmarked a number of low-end sata controllers for add-on, JBOD >> applications, and found that some give significantly lower >> performance than others. One of the good cards performance-wise >> turned out to be based on a SiI 3112 chipset, delivering performance >> very similar to intel's ICH6 (i865-based) motherboard sata >> controllers, and better than any others I found. That being said, I >> have not been able to deploy that card in a PCI-X based system; it >> hangs the (64-bit PCI-X) bus and won't let the computer boot. >> >> We use lots of 3ware sata controllers, and for jbod, they deliver >> significantly lower performance than either the ICH6- or 3112- based >> controllers. >> >> So I'm also looking for a 'yeah, it's cheap, it just works, and it >> delivers the full performance of the disk' sata controller. >> >> > > Well, these are just a bunch of old i810e and i815 boards running P3 > processors on a standard PCI bus. So I'll have to find a guinea pig > SiL3112 board to try (any particular brand?). I don't really even > care if they're that cheap, but they're only going to be used as dumb > controllers so RAID isn't really necessary. I donated a bunch of > these systems to a school and agreed to help them integrate things > with CentOS as the OS. Another donor bought a big box of SATA drives > (the systems originally had a bunch of rather old 20gig quantum > fireball drives) so I'm trying to help them combine both gifts without > an undue amount of support for them down the road. > > Cheers, > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos