When looking at motherboard specs and I see this notation: (Note: Taken from: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131655 Newegg showing ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890FX )
PATA 1 x ATA133 2 Dev. Max SATA 6Gb/s 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Question 1) pata 1 x ATA133 2 Dev. Max Does it mean there is only 1 IDE hdd may be installed? 6x SATA [...] Does it mean only 6 sata hdd may be installed? ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Question 2) The same spec shows: Expansion Slots PCI Express 2.0 x16 2 PCI Express x4 1 PCI Express x1 1 PCI Slots 2 Of those choices which is most likely to support (and be found easily) something like a 6 to 8 port sata controller. I'm assuming the answer in question 1 (6x sata) will be answered as 6 drives max, and I will have need of at least 8. (4 mirrored pairs) However, if the Pata thing supports 2 drives (I happen to have a matched 500GB pair on hand). Then I could get by with 6 sata drives but still thinking of expansion...probably good to know which kind of PCI*(whatever) for use driving a sata controller, to be on the lookout for. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss