Here's my situation: m1015 with 6 sata drives for pool tank. 7th port has 15K 73GB SAS drive as cache device. 8th port currently connected to e-sata connector on front panel of case for monthly backups. 160GB sata drive on one of the 4 motherboard sata ports (supermicro pdsmi+). I have a 64GB crucial m4 I want to use as a log device, but plugging it into the motherboard seems to only yield sata1 speed (in addition to the fact that OI apparently refuses to even go to the grub menu and just hangs - sigh...) Even when I didn't have that issue (e.g. just switched from nexenta back to OI), I discovered the motherboard ports apparently do NOT support hot-plug, so switching the M4 and the e-sata connector is a no-go (unless I want to have to boot with the e-sata drive plugged in and turned on - LOL). My motherboard only has one pcie slot (x8) which is where the m1015 resides. So the plan is to get a pci card with e-sata connector. I've found a couple of cheap rosewill cards on newegg, that indicate the sil3512 chipset, but I'm having trouble finding out if that is supported or not. Any help appreciated!
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