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To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
From: "Wolfgang Kunz" <woku@hush.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Hardware for Plan9
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Hello,

>this isn't a complete list of supported ahci or marvell
>parts.  i don't know about jmicron support.  i tried
>to add it without having any hardware to test.  i have
>always chosen other hardware over jmicron.  it seems
>to benchmark poorly and be unnecessarly incompatable.
>
>i have not done systematic benchmarking of the
>various parts.  however ..
>
>1.  unless one needs more ports than the motherboard
>offers, i would stick with on-board ports.

That makes sense for me. Perhaps I could save money and
use the onboard network chip too (most RELTEK)? Then I
could invest more money in the board and the CPU.

>2.  note that the marvell 88sx card is pci-x but will
>function properly in a pci slot.  the marvell 88se64*
>parts are a pci-e option.

I saw that this cards are really expensive. As you said
the onboard controller are a better choise.

>3.  if you set up a venti+fossil fileserver, you will have
>a quite seeky load and the performance of the controller
>should not be a big factor.  but the performance of the
>disks will be.

After reading many mails here I plan to run a fossil only
fileserver. So far I understand the "Ken" dedicated fileserver
has gone.

So disks >= 7200 u/min are ok?

>> For network cards the intel gbe cards seems to be the best?
>
>yes.  the 82563 and 8257[12456] are particularly good.

I could get a 82574L (PCIe) (Desktop pro CT - EXPI9301CT) for 30$.
Would this be a good buy?

Regards,

Wolfgang