Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

[David Ricar <lists@dejf.org>]

Hi,
sil3124 may need to be booted in a pc with a drive attached and flashed 
with nonraid bios. At leats this is a must for systems like opensolaris 
even on a pc platform.
Appart from that, this chipset is probably best at it's price level, we 
use it in some servers 24/7 for years.

Have a nice day!
David

On 01/14/2013 04:15 AM, Brian Szymanski wrote:
> Any recommendations for a good sata card for a pci-x powermac that works
> with debian?
>
> The ones I've looked at so far either:
> - have a raid "bios" which i assume is unaccessible on ppc and may or
> may not provide raw access to the disks by default. the best i can find
> on this front are sii3124 based cards which have some hideous java ui
> which proportedly works on linux (no doubt via X11, not the command line)
> - support osx, but there is no mention of other OS support, nor of what
> chipset the card uses (for example firmtek seritek 1v4)
>
> I won't need openfirmware/yaboot/etc. to see the thing at all. as my
> root volume will be attached to the onboard sata.
>
> Surely someone has looked in to this before?
>
> Or is my best bet really to go with some sort of external enclosure?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
> Brian Szymanski