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 at 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. >> > > > ? > > So what chipset would you recommend for non-raid, SATA solution? > > Marvell? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >