Sorry to be so poor in understanding the specs given on computer parts you may look up on line.
I'm in the market to upgrade a fading (oldish) Athlon64 +3400 setup with something a little newer.... no bleeding edge for what is only a home zfs server. I happened to be looking at the specs on a Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H (rev. 2.0) http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3424 Which gives a spec on the sata ports I don't really understand: First let me preface by saying my experience of SATA ports is limited to technology quite old by now.. maybe 5-7 yrs. In my experience on the mo board in the above mentioned aging hardware: (I think it is this: Abit AK86-L is socket 754. [The machine is clear broke down now so I can't confirm easily]) had 2 main ports and then somekind of raid ports. Far as I could see you were able to attach only 1 sata device to each port. (Of course ports could be and were added by PSI card) Sorry for getting a little carried away with details there, here is the question: In the spec at the above Gigabyte site, Under the heading of `Storage Interface': South Bridge: 1. 5 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors 6 supporting up to 5 SATA 6Gb/s devices And in the supplied image of the board I see 5 sata ports showing. So does that mean each ports is supposed to be able to support 5 sata devices? I want to know exactly the sata capacity of the board as that is the first thing I will run out of since I already have 6 fullish discs from the down machine to but in. ps - Note the mobo is given with a revision number. I wondered if that is something to be wary of, like if some revisions are known bad or whatnot. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
