Re: SATA cards with lots of ports?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:51:27PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> The AMI MegaRAID SATA cards support SAS port multipliers, so you can
> get up to 32 drives on them by using four 8-port multipliers.  The
> cabling is far tidier this way too.
> 
> If we had support for port multipliers in our ATA code we could do this
> with the motherboard SATA ports, too, which would be really nice.

I'd actually work on port multipliers support (at last for ahci) if
I knew where to get one. Do you have a name, part number or something ?

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