Re: [gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:39:04 -0600 Anthony Mutiso wrote: > Wikipedia says that after > 3 disks you start to saturate the controller. Guess I was wrong about the whole 'Port Multiplication' thing, if it works in that mode. Still, the original post a

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

2009-08-26 Thread Anthony Mutiso
Wikipedia says that after 3 disks you start to saturate the controller. Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:15:54 -0700 (PDT) > Jon Hardcastle wrote: > > >> I am looking at ways to increase the drive capacity of my machine. It has 4 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Jon Hardcastle wrote: > I am looking at ways to increase the drive capacity of my machine. It has 4 > in built sata ports, and currently 2 off the PCI port - which is only sata > 150 - this has proved a troublesome route. I have the option of a 2 port >

[gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

2009-08-25 Thread Jon Hardcastle
I am looking at ways to increase the drive capacity of my machine. It has 4 in built sata ports, and currently 2 off the PCI port - which is only sata 150 - this has proved a troublesome route. I have the option of a 2 port sata-300 off the 1 pci-express I have but I was looking to increase slig