[OpenIndiana-discuss] sata disk controller (not raid) PCIe compatible with openindiana

Marc Lobelle marc.lobelle at uclouvain.be
Mon Jun 23 20:11:11 UTC 2025


Sorry, the SATA PCIe card with marvel 9215 chip works fine. It were the 
disks that were not well powered.

Best regards

Marc

On 6/23/25 19:54, Marc Lobelle via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I need to add disks to a ZFS pool on openindiana.
>
> On 
> https://docs.openindiana.org/community-hcl/components/#storage-controllers, 
> I found the following controller
>
> Syba     IOCrest SI-PEX40108     Marvell 88SE9215
>
> I thus bought a controller based on this marvel chip
>
>  *
>    - Carte Controleur SATA III (Sata 3) PCI Express (PCI-E PCIe) vers 4
>    Ports SATA 6Gbps - Chipset Marvell 9215 - avec equerre Low Profile
> <https://www.amazon.com.be/dp/B07M6TKF2G?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title>
>
>    - SATA III (Sata 3) PCI Express (PCI-E PCIe) Controller Card to 4
>    SATA 6Gbps Ports - Marvell 9215 Chipset -
> <https://www.amazon.com.be/dp/B07M6TKF2G?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title>
>
>
>
>
>
> I added it to my computer with two 4TB SATA SSDs.
>
> I  touched /reconfigure and rebooted.
>
> Then I typed format to have the list of the disks, but I did not see 
> the two new disks. Is there something special to do to use this little 
> sata controller ?
>
> Else card with which chip would you recommend; I see also cheap cards 
> with ASM 1061.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marc
>
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