May 28, 201214 yr Author Not sure that works physically.... [male vs. female connections] That pretty much sums up the whole "gay marriage" dilemma, too. Geek humor. Made my day Did I miss something? Yeah ... two of these [link]. [Realistically, though, with all that cabling, and connectors/adapters, and then going out to E-Sata (which is not real E-Sata), you could be laying out the royal welcome mat for dear ol' Murphy. But ...] Ugh. I'm tempted, before spending a grand total of 2 x $3.99 M/F adapters to get my SuperMicro to drive two Esata ports -- to just get another Marvell based card and make it easier... Or, since the original goal was to create a second unraid server -- not to plan on re-using the Asmedia cards on that server -- just make sure I'm using Marvel cards over there. {Marvell driving port-multiplier external cabinet = Good.. for now Asmedia with port-multiplier external cabinet = Bad} For MY particular purposes, I think we can call this closed. I've got solutions to the "problem" that I can work with. But for the purposes of reporting issues with 5.0-RC3 -- which had recently added Asmedia 1061 support -- that was the "original" point. For now, the Asmedia 1061's don't do port-multiplying. With 5.0-RC3. Fine by me But I think we're approaching the proverbial -- "When you are up to your ass in alligators, you forget that your original mission was to drain the swamp." Now, if somebody has some other more "software-ish" (or RCx ish) thingy-ish for me to try, I've got the experimental hardware to do it Seriously, and sincerely -- in the end, thanks EVERYBODY. Now the only thing remaining is the cosmetic? (or is it more than that) -- that my Marvell isn't showing up in the "dmesg | grep ^ahci"
May 28, 201214 yr RR 622A will work. It does have a port multiplier but the marketing does not mention it. The reason I didn't use the Marvell card is that I need *two* port-multiplying eSata channels {My external jbod chassis is 8-bay, 1 channel per 4 drives, with two external eSata connections} -- and, more specific -- that I was dedicating the Marvell card to my Parity drive -- didn't want to have it sharing bandwidth driving the external chassis. The RR 622A has 2 independent port-multiplying eSata channels.
May 28, 201214 yr Author RR 622A will work. It does have a port multiplier but the marketing does not mention it. The reason I didn't use the Marvell card is that I need *two* port-multiplying eSata channels {My external jbod chassis is 8-bay, 1 channel per 4 drives, with two external eSata connections} -- and, more specific -- that I was dedicating the Marvell card to my Parity drive -- didn't want to have it sharing bandwidth driving the external chassis. The RR 622A has 2 independent port-multiplying eSata channels. Yea, correct. It's chicken/egg stuff for my particular build. The Marvell I have has 1 eSata and 1 sata -- and I was "dedicating" it (using only the internal sata) to my parity. Hadn't wanted to touch it for driving 4 more drives externally. So adding another Marvell, as I noted in my last post, is another option. Perhaps with dual eSata portss, and ditching my SATA->eSATA adapter plate. TY.
May 28, 201214 yr Here is the link that I found that made me think that some kernel hacking might alleviate the problem.
May 28, 201214 yr RR 622A will work. It does have a port multiplier but the marketing does not mention it. The reason I didn't use the Marvell card is that I need *two* port-multiplying eSata channels {My external jbod chassis is 8-bay, 1 channel per 4 drives, with two external eSata connections} -- and, more specific -- that I was dedicating the Marvell card to my Parity drive -- didn't want to have it sharing bandwidth driving the external chassis. The RR 622A has 2 independent port-multiplying eSata channels. Yea, correct. It's chicken/egg stuff for my particular build. The Marvell I have has 1 eSata and 1 sata -- and I was "dedicating" it (using only the internal sata) to my parity. Hadn't wanted to touch it for driving 4 more drives externally. So adding another Marvell, as I noted in my last post, is another option. Perhaps with dual eSata portss, and ditching my SATA->eSATA adapter plate. TY. More than 2 drives on an e-SATA port will seriously degrade the speed of parity checks and the like.
May 28, 201214 yr Author More than 2 drives on an e-SATA port will seriously degrade the speed of parity checks and the like. Yup. I know from experience. That's why I only used my "baby" 500gbs in there, once past 500gb Parity checks flew... -- this is/will be ultimately for a standby-test build... I retired the whole thing from production for performance.
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