Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:25:18 -0000 From: "Torsten Kersandt" <torsten@cnc-london.net> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: 12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots Message-ID: <006301cb7e76$d7ea0530$87be0f90$@net> In-Reply-To: <20101107120026.67C81106577F@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20101107120026.67C81106577F@hub.freebsd.org>
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:53:15 -0500 From: Douglas K. Rand <rand@meridian-enviro.com> Subject: 12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <87mxpmtbr8.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I have a moderately aged Tyan S4882 system that I need to support 12 SATA disks with for a ZFS pool. The motherboard doesn't provide any PCI-Express slots, but does have two 133 MHz PCI-X slots. Other than a 3ware S9550SX-12 or Areca ARC-1130, both of which are a bit hard to find, I was wondering if anybody had suggestions for me. ************************************************ HI Douglas I'm using the http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm With FreeBSD 6.4/7.2/8.0 and 8.1 In your case that would be 2 cards to a total of 16 ports, but you have 4 SATA build in and may get away with one card only Very fast and at USD100 very reasonable and on ebay half price. I use the card only for JOBD/SATA to PCI because the RAID is software and rather unusable The good thing is that you can interchange your drives to and from standard SATA controllers later and will not lose access or partitions. Good luck Regards Torsten
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