[ale] SATA PCI cards

[Dustin Strickland]

On the subject of SATA PCI cards, is anyone aware of any chipsets that
support hot-swapping? Recommendations for motherboards/PCI(e) cards
which are known to work with hot-swapping would be appreciated as well.

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:42:15 -0800
Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> Actually, the other (more expensive) option is to get one of the new
> Intel NUCs (but one with internal SATA and space for a drive) and then
> migrate my email server to that.
> 
> On 11/27/2013 15:24, Alex Carver wrote:
> > I'm running a fairly recent copy of Debian (it squeeze right behind
> > the current wheezy).  After fixing the drive I'd ramp up to wheezy
> > but everything currently "works" (which required breaking the way
> > Debian handles exim).  My only other option is to find new
> > old-stock IDE and/or refurb IDE drives.
> > 
> > On 11/27/2013 15:11, Greg Clifton wrote:
> >> I'm no expert on the matter, but a lot of the early "el cheapo"
> >> controllers using the Silicon Image chip set had problems with
> >> Linux. I think the problems were resolved with later iterations of
> >> Linux. So from my understanding your chances of success increase
> >> with the newness of the version you are running of your preferred
> >> distro.
> >>
> >> Happy Thanksgiving and Christmas, too, if this works for you.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Alex Carver
> >> <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Anyone have experience with the low cost PCI SATA cards on
> >>> Newegg/Amazon (like the ones from Rosewill, Syba, etc.) on their
> >>> linux boxes?  I think my Christmas present to myself is going to
> >>> be a card and SATA drive to replace a dying IDE drive in my mail
> >>> server.  I just want to do a single drive system so it's got to
> >>> be bootable even on an old motherboard.
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