http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silicon-Image-SataLink-PCI-RAID-SATA-Controller-Card-Sil3112ACTG144-Ser523-Rev-B-/190979296009?pt=US_Computer_Disk_Controllers_RAID_Cards&hash=item2c7740cb09
this card looks interesting in that its 4 ports with the same chipset as the seritek 1s2 cards which are 2 port
but its also 64bit instead of 32bit
would love to have the chance to test to see if it might work in 9 or X in a power mac..
but i dont think im willing to risk the purchase:D
Got the three-chip version with six channels. The PCI-PCI-X bridge is non-transparent, can't see the 3112 chips.
Unless someone tells me, how to re-program the bridge, these are likely to be great as a fancy wall decoration or letter weight.
Apparently, some use transparent bridges - would be great to know, which ones.
I think, every card of this kind branded by Adaptec is a bad choice.
Mine is from Adaptec. Looking for a non-Adaptec solution.
Nice weather here in Alsace today, continuing on 3114 / 3112 / 680 (and by proxy, since it's so similar) with VIA VT6421A.
Don't misunderstand: the VIA chip is very different from Silicon Image - but the entire logic how it handles things is the same.
What is different is the location of registers (while handling them is the same).
Attention with VIA: there are many-many of them, dirt cheap on eBay. Most don't have any ROM, just a place for the socket.
Mine has a non-socketed SST 49LF004B.
https://datasheetspdf.com/pdf/506447/SiliconStorageTechnology/SST49LF004B/1According the spec, it is a 4 Mbit LPC Firmware Flash, which boils down to 512KB ROM space - that has room for OpenFirmware, '9' SIM, BIOS, PPC "X" driver and even EFI for booting.
Hopefully, the card looking at the spec card seem to have 64KB ROM space only, do not understand why a 512KB ROM chip was put there.
64 would be enough for "9" and OpenFirmware only.