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. > ? So what chipset would you recommend for non-raid, SATA solution? Marvell?