Friday afternoon hardware questions

[Tom Buskey]

On Jan 22, 2008 3:47 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:

>
> It's not too bad - I have a 6' e.SATA cable on one of my drives.  The
> connectors are the worst of any technology I've ever seen - has
> anybody here solved this?  I think the multilink cables are better -
> infiniband connector, IIRC.


I have an infiniband to 4 SATA port adapter here.  Looks like a decent
design, but it's expensive.  Which is why I don't have a 2nd adapter & cable
to go with it.

I have 42" regular SATA cables that seem to work well.

I've also heard of multiport(path?) where 1 SATA port goes to 4-5 devices.
Does Linux have device drivers for it?  I know Solaris does not and MacOSX
does.
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