[volunteergrid2-l] storage cards

[erpo41 at gmail.com]

I guess I'll give it another go, then. :)
On Jul 30, 2012 9:42 AM, "Shawn Willden" <shawn at willden.org> wrote:

> Hmm.  Without more research than I have time to do right now, I can't tell
> which of my drives are connected to which controller, but I just did
> trivial read performance tests on all of them with "cat /dev/sd<whatever> |
> pv > /dev/null", and all of them sustain 60-80 MBps.  As for corruption,
> I've never had any problems.
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:36 AM, erpo41 at gmail.com <erpo41 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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