On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:48:08PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Craig Sanders (cas@taz.net.au):
it's also not at all uncommon for motherboards to have multiple different kinds of SATA (or even SAS) ports, requiring different drivers - e.g. sata_mv, sata_nv, ahci.
Haven't encountered that, not even in my many years as sole tester of all proposed new Unix servers, workstations, and laptops for large EDA firm Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
then you must never have used any AMD CPU motherboards from ASUS or Gigabyte or ASRock etc - almost all of them have SATA ports from the AMD chipset *plus* 2 or 4 more from a Marvell or Nvidia or some other SATA chip, and possibly another 1 or 2 set up as "ESATA" Intel CPU motherboards tend to have less SATA ports built-in, but when they have more then the 4 or so provided by the CPU chipset, then they're also usually provided by Marvell or Nvidia etc SATA chips. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>