On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:30:07PM +0000, Camale?n wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:37:53 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > I've been running a RAID1 on Firewire for years, but I really want SMART > > monitoring and SATA drives (and enclosures) keep getting cheaper. I'm > > running on older hardware with only PCI slots, no PCI-E or PCI-X, so I > > picked up a PCI SATA card with two SATA ports and two eSATA ports. It > > shows up in lspci like this: > > > > 0001:10:12.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3124 PCI-X > > Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) > > Just a hint: check the BIOS of the card (you usually get there by > pressing F8 key) and look whether it has been setup to function as a RAID > device or JBOD. > > My "wild guess" is that a RAID configuration could be a bit problematic > and thus avoiding/interfering the communication with external e-sata > ports.
That's an interesting thought, but it's a bit complicated by the fact that the old hardware in question is a G4-era Mac. Any idea how to check on that without a BIOS? I literally have no PC hardware available. > Greetings, > Camale??n --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
