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On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> 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. |
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> One thing I don't want is RAID; I will be using LVM to roll my own. But if a RAID card can handle dissimilar drives in a non-RAID fashion, that's fine by me. |
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> Running ~amd64. |
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I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I |
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picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. |
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They were marked as RAID cards, but it's software raid, and I only |
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wanted them as AHCI SATA controllers anyhow. As it happens, they work |
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in PCI slots as well as PCI-X slots. |
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