Re: eSATA woes
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:30:07PM +0000, Camale?n wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:37:53 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> > I've been running a RAID1 on Firewire for years, but I really want SMART
> > monitoring and SATA drives (and enclosures) keep getting cheaper. I'm
> > running on older hardware with only PCI slots, no PCI-E or PCI-X, so I
> > picked up a PCI SATA card with two SATA ports and two eSATA ports. It
> > shows up in lspci like this:
> >
> > 0001:10:12.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3124 PCI-X
> > Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
>
> Just a hint: check the BIOS of the card (you usually get there by
> pressing F8 key) and look whether it has been setup to function as a RAID
> device or JBOD.
>
> My "wild guess" is that a RAID configuration could be a bit problematic
> and thus avoiding/interfering the communication with external e-sata
> ports.
That's an interesting thought, but it's a bit complicated by the fact that
the old hardware in question is a G4-era Mac. Any idea how to check on that
without a BIOS? I literally have no PC hardware available.
> Greetings,
> Camale??n
--Greg
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