Re: sata port multiplier

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 08:06:40PM +0000, fxkl47BF@protonmail.com wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2025, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 
> > fxkl47BF@protonmail.com wrote:
> >> i want to try a sata port multiplier
> >> lspci says i have ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061 SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
> >
> > If you can swap it out to another PCIe based disk controller,
> > you'll be in luck... but if you can do that, you might want an
> > LSI 300X PCIe controller, which can do SAS and SATA and
> > frequently comes in 8 and 16 port variants, thus no longer
> > requiring a port multiplier in many scenarios.
> 
> swapping the controller is out
> this is a single board computer with builtin sata
>

Does it have a PCI slot free?

All the very best, as ever,

Andy
(amacater@debian.org)