Re: sata port multiplier
On Sun, 12 Oct 2025, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> 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,
no
just sata and usb 2
the smart thing would be trash it and get something better
but i'm curiuos if i can make a silk purse
without using a silk pig
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