[geeks] PCI Express SATA Multilane for Solaris

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Sun Apr 5 19:46:25 CDT 2009


Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 18:39 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
>> Sans digital sells "kits" with controller and multi-lane cables, I  
>> think they are standard SiL chipset reference designs, and as such  
>> "should" be fine with solaris, but no personal exp.
> 
> Everything I've read says those things suck.  Bad performance, etc.
> 
> I was thinking of something maybe by LSI Logic, but wasn't sure which  
> ones worked well.

Well, a fast search of FTW seems to say LSI makes a significant number
of PCI-e SAS cards with up to 16 ports per card.


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