Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-08 Thread Roy Wright
Albert Hopkins wrote: I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular fake HW RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't supported by the kernel. Thank you. The hardware search is being a little more difficult than I had hoped. I'm finding: * Internal

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-08 Thread kashani
Roy Wright wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular fake HW RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't supported by the kernel. Thank you. The hardware search is being a little more difficult than I had hoped. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-08 Thread Joshua D Doll
Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:32 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned when controller

[gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-06 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum required. I have both