[Lilux-help] SATA Controller

[Georges Toth]

hi Eric,

I can only recommend you brands...
highpoint, is well supported and works great.
same goes for 3ware (think they only do raid boards though)
adaptec has good boards

i had bad experience with promise controllers (low-end)...that might have 
changed though...


hope that helps some

> I've lately been thinking about adding a PCI (< 2.2) SATA Controller
> to one of my current machines (5 year old Athlon 800 on a VIA KT133
> board), for future use as a fileserver (relegated to some place where
> the noise won't disturb anyone). Of course I'd add in something like
> 2-4 large (> 200GB apiece) SATA disks for that task.
> The boot drive would remain on the current SCSI-based setup, so there
> won't be any issues with bootability from that new drive system.
>
> Obviously, that thing must be able to work with Linux, using free
> drivers. I don't necessarily need RAID functionality, as that can
> be covered by software RAID. I *do* want that tagged command queueing
> functionality, which is still only optional in SATA (unlike SCSI), but
> which makes all the difference in performance for concurrent access to
> the disks.
>
> So, can anyone recommend any specific products, preferrably not
> overly expensive, but reliable ones?
>
> TIA, Eric
>
> P.S. No, I'm not going to shell out big ¤¤¤ on huge SCSI drives ;-)
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regards,
Georges Toth