[volunteergrid2-l] storage cards

[erpo41 at gmail.com]

Really? A 3114? That's the exact kind I had and the performance was
terrible. Less than 1MB/sec. I contacted the driver author and he said that
the driver was throttling performance as a workaround: when run at full
speed that chip can corrupt data.
On Jul 27, 2012 7:09 AM, "Shawn Willden" <shawn at willden.org> wrote:

> From lspci:
>
> 03:04.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114
> [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
> 03:05.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114
> [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
>
> I've used two or three others in the past, with never a problem.
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:49 PM, erpo41 at gmail.com <erpo41 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a plain vanilla PCI card to add some SATA ports to my
>> server, but I've had bad luck with Linux and SATA cards in the past. Is
>> anyone:
>>
>> 1. using one of these cards right now on their storage server,
>> 2. not getting absolutely terrible performance and/or crashes, and
>> 3. willing to share the exact model number and revision of both the PCI
>> card and the chip?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
>>
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