From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 17:43:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 587F0575 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:43:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smarthost.sentex.ca", Issuer "smarthost.sentex.ca" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06BB127B2 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:43:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a] (saphire3.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s6NHhKAY023705; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:43:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <53CFF432.6000206@sentex.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:43:14 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Povolotsky , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inexpensive PCI SATA, anyone? References: <53CFE80B.20609@webmail.sub.ru> <53CFECD0.905@sentex.net> <53CFEF64.3090502@webmail.sub.ru> In-Reply-To: <53CFEF64.3090502@webmail.sub.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:43:24 -0000 On 7/23/2014 1:22 PM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Seems to be too thick for 1U... You could look at some of the 3ware cards on ebay. The 96xx series can be used as JBOD if you are looking for just a lot of disks. Ebay has them, and the card works quite well using the twa driver. ---Mike > > On 23.07.2014 21:11, Mike Tancsa wrote: >> >> With a lot of trial and error, the one card that works well for us in >> a backup server with 16 drives is >> >> http://www.addonics.com/products/adsa3gpx8-4e.php >> >> it shows up as >> >> pci5: on pcib5 >> siis0: port 0x3000-0x300f mem >> 0xb4408000-0xb440807f,0xb4400000-0xb4407fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5 >> siisch0: at channel 0 on siis0 >> siisch1: at channel 1 on siis0 >> siisch2: at channel 2 on siis0 >> siisch3: at channel 3 on siis0 >> >> # pciconf -lvcb siis0 >> siis0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x71241095 chip=0x31241095 >> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Silicon Image, Inc.' >> device = 'SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial ATA Controller' >> class = mass storage >> subclass = RAID >> bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xb4408000, size 128, >> enabled >> bar [18] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xb4400000, size 32768, >> enabled >> bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x3000, size 16, enabled >> cap 01[64] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0 >> cap 07[40] = PCI-X 64-bit supports 133MHz, 2048 burst read, 12 >> split transactions >> cap 05[54] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message >> >> Its PCIX chip on a PCIe bus >> >> ---Mike >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/