Add more HDDs to system based on ICH10R: PICe SATA controller vs SATA port muiltiplier

[Lev Serebryakov]

Hello, Andre.
You wrote 12 мая 2010 г., 22:24:42:

> For what i've read so far: there's a Supermicro card that seems to work,
>   but it's apparently a reversed card of some sort. That is the one of
> the few non-RAID card that is supported under FreeBSD besides some 
> Sil-chipset-based ones.
  SiI seems to be Ok on FreeBSD8 with siis driver...

> The Adaptec ASC-1405 (and Areca's 1300i as well) are both non-RAID cards
> based on Marvell's 88SE6440-chip, but there is no driver-support for 
> these cards. I have the Adaptec-card, and am hoping that this chip will
> get support in FreeBSD. Areca has put on their website that the driver
> for FreeBSD will be made available somewehere in Q1/Q2 of 2010 (just 
> like Adaptec, they claim FreeBSD-support on the box and in their 
> marketing but haven't got a driver, although the card has some support
> from the Linux-community).
  It  seems,  that mv driver is in test now, but for -CURRENT, not for
8-STABLE :(

> I haven't found any decent card yet with more than 2 SATA-ports that 
> have FreeBSD-support that aren't RAID-cards (at least in NL)
 Really, soft-RAIDs is almost Ok, if don't use them as RAIDs :)
  I  don't  have  money  for  full-featured RAIDs like "big" Arecas and
Adaptecs,  but  it  is Ok to have not-used soft-RAID functionality, if
card  is not too expensive (say, $100) and available in RU (because we
have  big  problems with Russian post now and I don't want to wait 2-3
months for box from eBay or other USA on-line store)...

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>