In message <472FD6A4.5030907@xxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > The other possibility is the Marvell based 8 port "dumb" SATA controller > from Supermicro. > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AoC-SAT2-MV8.cfm ... > Enquiries here previously have not found anyone using this card. I dropped it into a Fedora 7 system and ran a couple of tests with it (mostly bonnie++ and iozone). It worked out of the box (no manual configuration or drivers needed); I didn't observer any problems yet, and performance is OK, too. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html