[volunteers] The 2230 formerly (and presently) known as brie

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:42:58 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:

> It would, and that would be a good move.  Ideal for that purpose would
> be one of the older, cheap PCI cards based on a Silicon Image 3512,
> 3512A, or 3514 SATA chip, as those have excellent performance, are
> highly standard, and have a well-debugged libata driver ("sata_sil") in
> the standard Linux kernel.  Those chips are frequently used in OEM cards
> -- you are strongly advised to examine the card itself.

I was actually considering donating a card myself. It has the 3112A chip.