Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Schumacher
John, On Sunday, February 21, 2010 you wrote: a bunch of vendors sell 5-in-3 sata hotswap adapters that hold 5 SATA drives in 3 HH external bays of a jumbo tower chassis. they seem to run about $100. each drive bay has its own sata port on the back of these. example of one of these,

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-22 Thread David Hrbáč
Dne 22.2.2010 14:25, Michael Schumacher napsal(a): You may consider using this part: http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=2814 The disadvantage is that you have no quick-swap-possibility, but the cooling is better as in hot-swap cases. The box has nice vibe-stoppers so

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Stephen Harris wrote: 1. Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives it in and RAID them. (yes an 8 port SATA mobo). Running CentOS. or 2. Get an eSATA enclosure that has room for 8 or 10 drives and just connect it to box? My recommendation is the 2nd option.

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/22/2010 8:48 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: 1. Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives it in and RAID them. (yes an 8 port SATA mobo). Running CentOS. or 2. Get an eSATA enclosure that has room for 8 or 10 drives and just connect it to box?

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Les Mikesell wrote: On 2/22/2010 8:48 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: 1. Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives it in and RAID them. (yes an 8 port SATA mobo). Running CentOS. or 2. Get an eSATA enclosure that has room for 8 or 10 drives

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-21 Thread John R Pierce
Slack-Moehrle wrote: a bunch of vendors sell 5-in-3 sata hotswap adapters that hold 5 SATA drives in 3 HH external bays of a jumbo tower chassis. they seem to run about $100. each drive bay has its own sata port on the back of these. example of one of these,

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
1. Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives it in and RAID them. (yes an 8 port SATA mobo). Running CentOS. or 2. Get an eSATA enclosure that has room for 8 or 10 drives and just connect it to box? My recommendation is the 2nd option. I ran the first for a

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-21 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: , Yes, I looked into this and I was looking for a solution with a large number of drives, but at a good cost point. So you are saying a full fledged PC with an 8-port sata mobo is a better solution. yeah, its cheaper to go direct connect internal jbod.make

[CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-20 Thread Slack-Moehrle
HI All, I have a dilemma and I would appreciate advice 1. Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives it in and RAID them. (yes an 8 port SATA mobo). Running CentOS. or 2. Get an eSATA enclosure that has room for 8 or 10 drives and just connect it to box? I know that

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-20 Thread John R Pierce
Slack-Moehrle wrote: HI All, I have a dilemma and I would appreciate advice 1. Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives it in and RAID them. (yes an 8 port SATA mobo). Running CentOS. or 2. Get an eSATA enclosure that has room for 8 or 10 drives and just connect

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-20 Thread Slack-Moehrle
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:36:59 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC? Slack-Moehrle wrote: HI All, I have a dilemma and I would appreciate advice 1. Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: HI All, I have a dilemma and I would appreciate advice 1. Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives it in and RAID them. (yes an 8 port SATA mobo). Running CentOS. or 2. Get an

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-20 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi Rudi, If you're building something on the cheap, then you could get an even cheaper setup with a 4port SATA motherboad, and an add 4port SATA PCI / PCI-e card. True, that would be each drive on its own port, which is optimal. With 8 ports, I could get 8 x 2tb and and have 8th in RAID10.

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-20 Thread John R Pierce
Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi John, Yes, I looked into this and I was looking for a solution with a large number of drives, but at a good cost point. So you are saying a full fledged PC with an 8-port sata mobo is a better solution. yeah, its cheaper to go direct connect internal jbod.

Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC?

2010-02-20 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi John, So you are saying a full fledged PC with an 8-port sata mobo is a better solution. a bunch of vendors sell 5-in-3 sata hotswap adapters that hold 5 SATA drives in 3 HH external bays of a jumbo tower chassis. they seem to run about $100. each drive bay has its own sata port on

Re: [CentOS] eSATA controller that supports Centos 4.4

2009-05-02 Thread Jean-Francois Leblond
jfleblon...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:57:13 -0700 From: pie...@hogranch.com To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] eSATA controller that supports Centos 4.4 Jean-Francois Leblond wrote: Hi, I'm looking for SATA controller with a eSATA port that is supported by Centos

Re: [CentOS] eSATA controller that supports Centos 4.4

2009-05-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Jean-Francois Leblond wrote: How can I list the sata controllers supported on my Centos 4 system ? try not top posting, it completely destroys context. also, all ahci and libata mode sata controllers work fine. the device being internal or external has nothing to do with the driver used to

Re: [CentOS] esata

2009-05-01 Thread Jerry Geis
Trying to get my esata working... I ubuntu thread talked about a command scsiadd? yum provides */scsiadd did not result in anything. The esata is on the motherboard. Is there something special I have to do to get esata to come alive? dmesg does not report anything when I turn on my disk.

Re: [CentOS] esata

2009-05-01 Thread James Pearson
Jerry Geis wrote: I am trying to get esata working. my lspci is below. When I plug in the disk an turn it on - dmesg reports nothing. Is it supposed to report anything like a usb disk does? Is there a module to load? My motherboard is GA-MA78GM-US2H. I've had problems with certain

Re: [CentOS] esata

2009-05-01 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / I am trying to get esata working. my lspci is below. // // When I plug in the disk an turn it on - dmesg reports nothing. // Is it supposed to report anything like a usb disk does? // // Is there a module to load? // // My motherboard is GA-MA78GM-US2H. / I've

Re: [CentOS] esata

2009-05-01 Thread James Pearson
Jerry Geis wrote: James, In fact it does work under USB. Was hoping to get esata working for extra speed. I tried rebooting with everything attached and that did not help either. Anything else to try? Try another make of drive? As I mentioned previously, we've found some makes of eSATA

[CentOS] eSATA controller that supports Centos 4.4

2009-05-01 Thread Jean-Francois Leblond
Hi, I'm looking for SATA controller with a eSATA port that is supported by Centos 4.4 ( rhel 4.4) Do you have any suggestions for a eSATA controller with good Linux support ? How can I list the sata controllers supported by Centos 4.4 ? Thanks JF Leblond Jean-François Leblond

Re: [CentOS] eSATA controller that supports Centos 4.4

2009-05-01 Thread John R Pierce
Jean-Francois Leblond wrote: Hi, I'm looking for SATA controller with a eSATA port that is supported by Centos 4.4 ( rhel 4.4) Do you have any suggestions for a eSATA controller with good Linux support ? How can I list the sata controllers supported by Centos 4.4 ? RHEL4

[CentOS] esata

2009-04-30 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to get esata working. my lspci is below. When I plug in the disk an turn it on - dmesg reports nothing. Is it supposed to report anything like a usb disk does? Is there a module to load? My motherboard is GA-MA78GM-US2H. Jerry - 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices