[OpenIndiana-discuss] Can anyone recommend an external SATA card?

[trevor robinson]

  If it's helpful we use (or did anyway, since an advantage of ZFS is avoiding using proprietary RAID cards !) Areca, we have a test machine running OI_148 using an Areca ARC1200 (PCIe x1).

Trev

--- On Thu, 1/20/11, Robin Axelsson <gu99roax at student.chalmers.se> wrote:

From: Robin Axelsson <gu99roax at student.chalmers.se>
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can anyone recommend an external SATA card?
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 11:50 PM

When it comes to Marvells chips it some of them work on OSOL/OI and some 
of them don't. Look into the OpenSolaris HCL, if it 
signed/certified/native than it's fine but if it merely says "reported 
to work" I would be careful about it. I would not recommend anyone using 
JMicron controller chips as I have had tons of problems with them on 
several different motherboards. There are drivers for them in OSOL/OI 
but they are nothing but trouble.


On 2011-01-20 23:09, Michelle Knight wrote:
> Hi Willard,
>
> Thank you for those links. I've had a look through and it is interesting that
> the cheaper cards are Marvell, though based on .
>
> The card I've got problems with is based on the Marvell 9128 chipset.
>
> Do you think I could run in to trouble?
>
> Michelle.
>
> On Thursday 20 January 2011 21:36:50 Willard Korfhage wrote:
>> Here are some references to good cards:
>>
>>   From 16 to 2 ports: Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS&  Linux MD RAID
>> http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10
>>
>> Some discussion that followed the blog posting
>> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=480925
>>
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