On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 09:13:35PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:16 PM tito via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:10:51 -0500 > > o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > > > Greetings > > > > > > Bought a mobo that said that there was room for 8 SATA ports and 2 M2 > > > drives. > > > > > > It took looking in the fine print to find that when using M2 drives > > > that one loses an > > > SATA port for each M2 drive.
They may be SATA-only M.2, not NVMe. Read the manual closely. > > > Have found some PCIe 3.0 cards with 16 SATA port count. > > > > > > Do I need any kind of special driver to use this many SATA ports? > > > > What kind of SATA cards (brand, model, chip)? > > > > SATA PCIe Adapter 16 Port SATA III to PCI Express 3.0 X1 Controller > Expansion Card ASM1064 JBM575 Chip Best try is always to search for the chip markings. You would find this thread: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/05f0db0a-e961-0f68-4302-68be03459...@opensource.wdc.com/T/ There's a slight difference (ASM1062 vs ASM1064) but the card should work with standard AHCI driver (you may need to add pciids or bind the driver to the card). -- Tomasz Torcz 72->| 80->| to...@pipebreaker.pl 72->| 80->| _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
