Hi Jeremy Wellner! On 2011.10.11 at 13:58:30 -0700, Jeremy Wellner wrote next:
> > Do you have any suggestions on a good card to run a port multiplier SATA > enclosure? I'll have to see about getting these returned :) > > > For list of good cards with some descriptions, check out this page: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 Or, rather, chips which card should be based on; for many of these chips there are lots of cards from various manufacturers, which work more or less the same and differ on port layout (internal/internal+external/external) As for supporting port multiplier, unfortunately I never tried it with sata solutions so can't give any advice or tell if it's even supported well in linux.. SAS solutions work with multipliers, but if I understand correctly it's quite different technology. But if they work, for example, with ahci driver, than they generally should work with any ahci-supported controller. Note that this list includes highpoint adapter, Rocket 620 series. This adapter is cheap and plain HBA without any highpoint driver tricks that I mentioned in previous mail, as this blog page lists, it works with standard driver - not saying you should be getting it, just making it clear so you won't get wrong assumptions :) Anyhow that page is good enough and provides lots of details about controllers. -- Vladimir