Inexpensive PCI SATA, anyone?

[Mike Tancsa]

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: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
siis0: <SiI3124 SATA controller> port 0x3000-0x300f mem 
0xb4408000-0xb440807f,0xb4400000-0xb4407fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
siisch0: <SIIS channel> at channel 0 on siis0
siisch1: <SIIS channel> at channel 1 on siis0
siisch2: <SIIS channel> at channel 2 on siis0
siisch3: <SIIS channel> at channel 3 on siis0

# pciconf -lvcb siis0
siis0 at 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


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