On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I > picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. > > They were marked as RAID cards, but it's software raid, and I only > wanted them as AHCI SATA controllers anyhow. As it happens, they work > in PCI slots as well as PCI-X slots.
Hmmm ... that's one I bookmarked, but I am curious how they claim 8 port when it only has three connectors? Newegg's pictures aren't clear enough for me to figure that out. Is it two on the back and three doublt-ports on the front? How well do they work? I suppose must be good enough to recommend it :-) Do you actually have 8 drives connected to one? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o