https://sigtar.com/tags/pci-e/ Recent content in Pci-E on sigtar.com Hugo en-nz Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2009/09/01/opensolaris-zfs-pci-e-sata-controller/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2009/09/01/opensolaris-zfs-pci-e-sata-controller/ <p>Time for me to add some more sata ports to my opensolaris build. I&rsquo;ve been using the <a href="https://sigtar.com/2009/05/20/flashing-si3114-to-sata-only-bios/">SI 3114 PCI</a> cards  (4x sata) up until now without any issue, but they are limited by the bandwidth on the PCI slot. Time to upgrade and boost my performance.</p> <p>At the moment i&rsquo;m looking at grabbing one of these UIO cards;</p> <p><a href="https://sigtar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/AOC-USAS-L8i.gif"><img src="https://sigtar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/AOC-USAS-L8i.gif" alt="AOC-USAS-L8i" title="AOC-USAS-L8i"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm">http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm</a></p> <p>From what iv&rsquo;e been reading these cards will work fine in a PCI-e slot (8x / 16x) after a bit of modding and display the drives straight to opensolaris without any additional drivers etc. (same chipset used in various sun servers)</p>