On 12-04-13 04:26 PM, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for an Express Card to plug into my laptop to provide additional > eSATA port. I just tried two cards, incidentally having same chipset. One was > from Axago ECS-6S (1x eSATA port) and the other was Kouwell EK-113 (2x eSATA). > Both cards have just one/two eSATA ports but kernel tries to assign many ata ports > (see the logs). And this was probably fatal issue: I have/use this single-port card with port-multipliers and single drives, and it works very well under all kernels from the past couple of years: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/1-port-esata-expresscard-34mm-expansion-card-for-laptops-3gbps-28899 0d:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB360 AHCI Controller (rev 02) There is also a 2-port version, which probably works just as well, but I don't have one (yet -- on order). http://www.dealextreme.com/p/54mm-express-card-to-2-port-esata-raid-card-for-notebook-48004 Do NOT get any of the combo USB3/eSATA cards, because the eSATA ports on those are really just USB3 internally. So they work with port multipliers, but they don't provide raw drive access. I have one of those here as well. Cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
