Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030356AbWBAKPE (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 05:15:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030366AbWBAKPE (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 05:15:04 -0500 Received: from ookhoi.xs4all.nl ([213.84.114.66]:24802 "EHLO favonius.humilis.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030356AbWBAKPC (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 05:15:02 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:15:04 +0100 From: Sander To: Roger Heflin Cc: "'Lennart Sorensen'" , "'Sander'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com Subject: Re: [OT] 8-port AHCI SATA Controller? Message-ID: <20060201101504.GC14960@favonius> Reply-To: sander@humilis.net References: <20060131185804.GM18970@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Uptime: 10:59:06 up 1 day, 47 min, 26 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.06 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 24 Roger Heflin wrote (ao): > Highpoint has some that I believe are software raidish. > > They do have on-board parity generators that are used when > you use there binary only modules. > > I have heard that they will work with later kernels (2.6.15+) > since the highpoint are a standard Marvell chipset, and they > seem to be fairly price competitive with JBOD raid controllers, > and have some controllers that have more than 8 ports, the price > per port may be better on the larger controllers. Thanks for the tip. I'll do some research on the Highpoint controllers. Kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/