Are there any good SATA HBAs that utilize the old PCI Slot and not PCIe?
May i be wrong but i don’t think that an hba for PCI slot exists (and can exists)… i have seen some controller PCI-SATA, but they are a really poor choice
It has been a very long time, but back then I was heavily into my role as an IBM Server technical engineer, but if I remember right, SATA as a protocol became popular after PCI-E came out, and there weren’t a lot of PCI cards for SATA, so finding them is going to be really hard.
RAID adapters were really popular at this time, and were more EISA based, and then went to PCI-E. There were servers that had both slots (EISA and PCI) for that reason.
That said, not used this at all but with SATA 1.0 support only you have some retro computer people making things but it won’t let me link, look for “Rabbit Hole Computing” and they have a single drive SATA 1.0 card in a PCI slot as well as a two port card. You could also hunt for the Silicon Image SiI3112 chipset. You’ll find them very limited in number of drives, I think the SATA 1.0 spec only let you connect one or two drives per port.
There are 3ware/LSI/AMCC controllers like this one:
ebay# 403832849456
These controllers used PCI-X, i.e 3.3V 64 bit 66/100 MHz PCI slots. Many server boards of this time had 1 or 2 PCI-X slots. They won’t work in standard 5V 33MHz PCI slots - these are much too slow. Adaptec also used to have PCI-X controller boards.
Ok thank you for the info. Then I’ll look for another solution.
Honestly, if your server has PCI slots but not PCIe it is unlikely to support enough RAM for a modern version of OpenZFS.
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