From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 6 00:03:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C68106564A for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 00:03:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Daan@vehosting.nl) Received: from VM01.VEHosting.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f14:32d::1:140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9700F8FC08 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 00:03:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Daan@vehosting.nl) Received: from [192.168.2.223] (205-244.ftth.onsbrabantnet.nl [88.159.244.205] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by VM01.VEHosting.nl (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2603Zcr087928; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 01:03:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Daan@vehosting.nl) From: Daan Vreeken Organization: VEHosting - Vitsch Electronics Hosting To: Christopher Key Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 01:03:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <49AFE0DF.9000003@cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <49AFE0DF.9000003@cam.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903060103.16752.Daan@vehosting.nl> x-ve-auth-version: mi-1.0.3 2008-05-30 - Copyright (c) 2008 - Daan Vreeken - VEHosting x-ve-auth: authenticated as 'pa4dan' on VM01.VEHosting.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:03:36 -0000 Hi Christopher, On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:25:35 Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home > media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large > numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been > unable to find any consensus on their level of support in FreeBSD. I'm > currently looking at a RocketRAID 2314 and SiI3726 based port > multipliers. Has any had any experience with this combination? The Sil3726 works very well if you run a recent enough version of FreeBSD. = We=20 use the device in a custom storage appliance. I don't know the RocketRAID=20 2314 though. You need a SATA 2.0 controller for Port Multipliers to work. =46reeBSD has (experimental) support for Port Multipliers since the followi= ng=20 commit : On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:05:05 S=F8ren Schmidt wrote: > sos 2008-04-10 13:05:05 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository =2E.. > Log: > Add experimental support for SATA Port Multipliers > > Support is working on the Silicon Image SiI3124/3132. > Support is working on some AHCI chips but far from all. > > Remember this is WIP, so test reports and (constructive) suggestions are > welcome! Regards, =2D-=20 Daan Vreeken VEHosting http://VEHosting.nl tel: +31-(0)40-7113050 / +31-(0)6-46210825 KvK nr: 17174380