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. IMHO, the SIL stuff is weak sauce for a server, and totally unsuitable for a server using a SAS backplane.