Antony Stone wrote:
> PS: Just in case you wonder "hm, sdv is awfully close to sdz - what happens
> next?", the answer is simply that the standard Linux kernel then moves on to
> device names /dev/sdaa, /dev/sdab, etc...
>
> I'm not sure where the current limit of device names is, but I don't
On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 08:22:38AM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > > > > Have found some PCIe 3.0 cards with 16 SATA port count.
> > > > > Do I need any kind of special driver to use this many SATA ports?
> > > > What kind of SATA cards (brand, model, chip)?
> > > >
> > >
> > > SATA PCIe Adap
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:53 PM Tomasz Torcz wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 09:13:35PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:16 PM tito via Dng wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:10:51 -0500
> > > o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > >
> > > > Greetings
> > > >
> >
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 09:13:35PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:16 PM tito via Dng wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:10:51 -0500
> > o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > Bought a mobo that said that there was room for 8 SATA ports and 2 M2
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:16 PM tito via Dng wrote:
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> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:10:51 -0500
> o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
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> > Greetings
> >
> > Bought a mobo that said that there was room for 8 SATA ports and 2 M2
> > drives.
> >
> > It took looking in the fine print to find that when using M2 dr
On Wednesday 22 June 2022 at 01:04:24, Antony Stone wrote:
> I have a machine with a motherboard having 6 SATA ports, into which are
> connected one SSD and five HDDs; it also has two USB3 ports into which are
> plugged two Fantec 8-drive external cabinets, each containing 8 SATA disks,
> so the t
On Wednesday 22 June 2022 at 00:10:51, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> Have found some PCIe 3.0 cards with 16 SATA port count.
>
> Do I need any kind of special driver to use this many SATA ports?
tito has a good question - what sort of cards are they?
But, in principle, no, you do not need any sp
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:10:51 -0500
o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Bought a mobo that said that there was room for 8 SATA ports and 2 M2 drives.
>
> It took looking in the fine print to find that when using M2 drives
> that one loses an
> SATA port for each M2 drive.
>
> So in a syst
Greetings
Bought a mobo that said that there was room for 8 SATA ports and 2 M2 drives.
It took looking in the fine print to find that when using M2 drives
that one loses an
SATA port for each M2 drive.
So in a system with 2 M2s and a pair of SSDs for the operating system
I've only got space lef
