[SGVLUG] SATA card for Fedora

Mon Feb 4 10:35:36 PST 2008

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the kind offer.

I purchased three of the Adaptec Sata 3G 2 port PCIe cards, they are working fine.

They were a bit more expensive per port than the Highpoint card, but I am guessing performance will be better as nobody else is trying to make a 4 port PCIe card for some reason....

Highpoint tech support *did* get back to me after 8 contacts, but I think it was only because I was reduced to begging for a response.  Their answer was that they would have a driver for F8 in the next couple of weeks, the same answer they gave another petitioner in November....

Does anyone know how many fans a Antec TruePower Trio 650 power supply's fan bus is supposed to be able to support?  I have it hooked up to (well had) four fans.  An odd smell in the evening, and the next morning 10 *hot* hard drives shows that was not a good idea.  Four didn't seem to be that many though....

Looking forward to seeing you all again at the next meeting,

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf Of Eric Theis
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:54 PM
To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] SATA card for Fedora

Just noticed this thread...  Kinda been slackin' off on reading email at home.

Anyway, if you have not already bought a card I can give you an Intel SATA 1 
RAID card if you want.  I am no longer using it, but it is solid.  It uses 
the gth driver and has 64mb of cache on the card itself.  Supports RAID 
0,1,5,10.  It is a 64bit PCI card so you wont get full throughput unless you 
have a 64bit PCI slot.

Well lemme know if you are interested.

Eric

On Monday 21 January 2008 00:46:26 Matt Campbell wrote:
> Thanks Munjal and Michael,
>
>
>
> I'll give it a try.  I am not certain the drivers are included as the
> Fedora drivers are listed for download on the manufacturer's site.  It
> could be that I would need to wait for them to release a F8 driver.
>
>
>
> Wish me luck!  I'll let you know how it turns out.  If all works out I
> should be up to 8T, and have just over 2 free for future use.  Wherever did
> it go?
>
>
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On
> Behalf Of Munjal Thakkar
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 11:19 PM
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] SATA card for Fedora
>
>
>
> a lot of the higherend highpoint cards are pretty good if you ask me, but
> as stated in reviews, the tech support doesn't just suck, its non-existant.
> 3ware is overpriced for a home media server if you ask me, i would shop
> around for a highpoint and go for that, see if it works out for you. So far
> I have an older card, an 1820 with 8 sata ports running a raid 5 with all
> channels with 500 gig drives, so far its been running fine (for the most
> part) for over a year. So it all depends.
>
> Or, if your media server is strictly to just place media, why not take a
> look at www.freenas.org. ? Its BSD based actually, but works really well
> and the software raid built in has a lot of support behind it and proven
> stability (and read/write speeds of 400MB/sec even, on the right hardware).
> This might be off tracking, but could lead to a possibly cheaper solution?
>
> On Jan 19, 2008 11:59 AM, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I have had good luck with 3ware cards, there drivers are in the kernel
> and they are real raid not hardware assisted software raid. But you
> get what you pay for they are much more expensive. On the other hand
> if the highpoint card is support in core 1-7 then the drivers are in
> the kernel. But again for $118 you are most certainly getting software
> raid with a bios utility to set it up.
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2008 10:29 AM, Matt Campbell < <mailto:dvdmatt at gmail.com>
>
> dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good morning all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I unfortunately ran out of space on my media server last week and need to
> > add 4 more 1T drives, but am out of SATA ports.
> >
> >
> >
> > I looked online and found a 4 port SATA II PCIe x1 card which would take
> > advantage of the three unused x1 ports on my motherboard.
> >
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16816115029
>
> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16816115029&Sort
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> ield=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnly
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> &SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&Vid
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>
> > The reviews of the card state that the manufacturer (in Milipitas) is
> > *horrible* for technical support with people getting a response only
> > after multiple calls and emails.
> >
> >
> >
> > The manufacturer's site lists drivers for Fedora Code 1-6 and Fedora core
>
> 7.
>
> > Does anyone have experience with these cards (Highpoint) or can you
> > recommend a good 4 port SATA2 PCI or PCIe1 card?
> >
> >
> >
> > I have tried contacting the manufacturer to see if they support F8 yet,
>
> but
>
> > am not holding my breath.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any experience you have had with SATA cards under
> > Linux,
> >
> >
> >
> > Matt