Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

2018-12-12 Thread taii...@gmx.com
Ahh didn't see your reply. Hook it up via your motherboards sata ports to check. Those no name china brand controllers are almost always really shitty if you want a nice but affordable HBA for SAS/SATA get on with an LSI 2008 chipset you got ripped off paying almost $40 for that junk I paid only

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

2018-12-12 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I found this SATA card.  I've found it in several places so may not buy > from this vendor but this one has some nice pics of the card.  Also, > brands seem to vary too. > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/Syba-Marvell-88SE9235-Four-Port-SATA3-Controller-Card-SI-PEX40062-NEW/13284

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

2018-12-04 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > On 2018.12.03 21:59, Dale wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I found the manufacturer website.  It says this card supports Hot >> Plug and Hot Swap.  Have you ever did this?  If so, any problems?  I >> don't know why but outside of USB, that sort of thing makes me >> nervous.  I'm old school I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

2018-12-04 Thread Jack
On 2018.12.03 21:59, Dale wrote: Hi, I found the manufacturer website.  It says this card supports Hot Plug and Hot Swap.  Have you ever did this?  If so, any problems?  I don't know why but outside of USB, that sort of thing makes me nervous.  I'm old school I guess.  Plugging things into

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

2018-12-04 Thread Scott Ellis
I haven't done hot-plug with it, so cannot vouch for that working or not. I use one of the ESATA ports to go to a 4x external drive enclosure (so using FIS), with spinning disks that are solely for backups (zfs send/receive of snapshots), and two of the internal ports for SSDs in a zpool. Scott

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

2018-12-03 Thread Dale
Hi, I found the manufacturer website.  It says this card supports Hot Plug and Hot Swap.  Have you ever did this?  If so, any problems?  I don't know why but outside of USB, that sort of thing makes me nervous.  I'm old school I guess.  Plugging things into a computer was always done when the pute

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

2018-11-30 Thread Scott Ellis
Yes, I have that card (well, the 2 internal/2 external port version). Works fine with the AHCI driver on x86_64. No quirks needed, supports FIS, etc. ScottE On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:50 PM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/30/18 8:15 PM, Dale wrote: > > > > Does anyone have a card and know for

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/30/18 8:15 PM, Dale wrote: Does anyone have a card and know for sure that this works and is stable?  Also, any clues on what driver it takes? Probably the standard "ahci" driver.

[gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

2018-11-30 Thread Dale
Howdy, I found this SATA card.  I've found it in several places so may not buy from this vendor but this one has some nice pics of the card.  Also, brands seem to vary too. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Syba-Marvell-88SE9235-Four-Port-SATA3-Controller-Card-SI-PEX40062-NEW/132845338557 I checked the k