Hello fellow listers... I'd like to get some recommendations on a good SATA controller for use with CentOS 5.x. It should be PCI, bootable, have 4 SATA ports, have native support (no crap proprietary or manually compiled drivers), and possibly hot swap support. Any ideas? There are plenty of PCI-X and PCIe controllers that I think would work but the use for this card is in a smaller 1U server that is quite cramped, hence the query for a standard PCI card. All suggestions and comments welcome. Thank you! Tim Nelson Systems/Network Engineer Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105
On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:> I'd like to get some recommendations on a good SATA controller for > use with CentOS 5.x. It should be PCI, bootable, have 4 SATA ports, > have native support (no crap proprietary or manually compiled > drivers), and possibly hot swap support. Any ideas?I've got three Promise SATA300 TX4 controllers running in Centos 5 boxes without any problems. http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?segment=Non-RAID%20HBAs&product_id=139 --Chris
Am 10.09.2008 um 19:17 schrieb Tim Nelson:> Hello fellow listers... > > I'd like to get some recommendations on a good SATA controller for > use with CentOS 5.x. It should be PCI, bootable, have 4 SATA ports, > have native support (no crap proprietary or manually compiled > drivers), and possibly hot swap support. Any ideas? > > There are plenty of PCI-X and PCIe controllers that I think would > work but the use for this card is in a smaller 1U server that is > quite cramped, hence the query for a standard PCI card.Use the onBoard SATA-ports and do a software RAID1. If you can use PCIe, get an Areca card (they also do PCI-X). Otherwhise, I wouldn't bother, except for maybe 3Ware cards - but if you think about a card already, Areca should be better. Rainer