[Gllug] SATA card recommendations.

[Andrew Farnsworth]

On Mon Oct  6  5:36 , Christopher Mocock  sent:

>Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
>> I'd be grateful for recommendations for inexpensive PCI SATA cards
>> that work fully under Linux AND support 1TB drives.
>> 
>> The version / distro is irrelevant as I can upgrade as required.  So
>> far I only seem to find cards that satisfy only one of the criteria...
>> :-/
>
>You could try the Supermicro SAT2-MV8. It works fine on Fedora, has 8
>ports, supports SATA2(300) and only costs 60-70 pounds. The only problem
>is that the driver is not open source so you'll be running a tainted kernel.

Looking online I found the following page: http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html

This seems to indicate that the Silicon Image 3124 is an open chipset and has
open drivers.  Cards based on this are available in the US for <$100.

Andy
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