On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:32:51 -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: (...)
> My big question is... most of these external drive boxes seem to claim > support for JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, etc. - should I presume that is > simply fake RAID like many commodity mobos have, and not really usable > in Linux? In that case, with all the drives hanging off the one eSATA > connection, will Linux (specifically Debian Squeeze) see all four > drives, or just the first one? Will I be able to configure them in a > RAID5 array as desired? I would take a closely look on each enclosure specs because there can be many differences between them. (a quick Google search provides some interesting results on this matter) http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&complete=0&site=webhp&source=hp&q=esata+por+multiplier+enclosure&btnG=Search OTOH, you can also review this page where there are many sata chipsets listed along with their PMP capabilities: https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SATA_hardware_features But again, nothing prevents the manufacturer from disabling such option in the device firmware :-/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.01.18.18.44...@gmail.com
