[OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

[Robin Axelsson]

On 2011-02-19 01:12, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Jeppe Toustrup<openindiana at tenzer.dk>  writes:
>
>> 2011/2/19 Harry Putnam<reader at newsguy.com>:
>>> I'm a bit confused... does the `x' in each case stand for a
>>> controller?
>>>
>>> So Pata controllers support 2 drives,
>>> but SATA controllers only support 1?
>>>
>> No, it's the number of connectors of the kind in question it mentions.
>> You may connect to devices to a PATA port, a master and a slave, while
>> you may only connect one SATA device to each SATA port.
> Ahh yes, I'd neglected to account for the master/slave business.
> Thanks.
>
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I would recommend that you choose a motherboard with more PCIe x16 slots 
(unless you are absolutely sure that you won't need more in the future). 
Then you could get an LSI 1068e based SAS/SATA controller (that uses 
PCIe x8 which fits into a PCIe x16 but not x4 or less) which allows you 
to connect 8 drives to it.