I realize the software support isn't there now, but I'm having trouble getting a lot of SATA drives into a cheap AMD64 computer.
Most everything has 4 ports on the motherboard, but all the cheap SATA controllers are PCI-X, and all of the Socket 939 or 940 PCI-X motherboards are expensive. Yes, I can plug a PCI-X controller into an ordinary PCI slot, but that's a big bandwidth hit. So I'm thinking of starting my RAID system with 4x400 GB drives, but getting a case that can hold more, and hoping that port multipliers will appear by the time I need to expand. But that means that I need to pick a motherboard that is hardware-capable of port multiplier support, even if it isn't supported yet. Does anyone know which controllers are capable of driving a port multiplier, and which are definitely not? Thanks! (P.S. If anyone is searching, a cheap peripheral company named Addonics makes Sil3124 PCI-X 4-port SATA cards.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
