Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread felix
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I have a couple MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller devices I picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. It came, I installed it, it shows a BIOS page on reboot, and lspci knows about it. However, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread felix
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I have a couple MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller devices I picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. It came, I installed it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I have a couple MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller devices I picked up from Newegg a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread felix
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:45:27AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Aiieee! For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT sata_mv. I'll report back in a while That did it. I now have 8TB of new drive to play with. Thanks for the card recommendation and all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-24 Thread Alyf
On 24/06/12 00:20, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I have a couple MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller devices I picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. I second the recommendation. Don't know about the

[gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
I need to get a PCI-X SATA card. Two drives is fine, or 8, even tho I can't fit 8 drives in the box. This is for bulk storage, so I don't mind if it can only handle 100 Mhz or even less. My mainboard can't go over 133 Mhz. They are 64 bit 3.3v slots. One thing I don't want is RAID; I will

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I need to get a PCI-X SATA card.  Two drives is fine, or 8, even tho I can't fit 8 drives in the box.  This is for bulk storage, so I don't mind if it can only handle 100 Mhz or even less.  My mainboard can't go over 133 Mhz.  They

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I have a couple MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller devices I picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. They were marked as RAID cards, but it's software raid, and I only wanted them as AHCI SATA

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I have a couple MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller devices I picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. They were marked as RAID cards, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8. How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2,

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:00:01PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles? ..two... Botched that one! Well, doesn't matter; I ordered one, and it is what it is. I reckon it must be possible, and I don't think I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 7:13 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:00:01PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles? ..two... Botched that one!  Well, doesn't matter; I ordered one, and it is what