From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgPA4-0003kv-NE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:04 +0000 Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 207) id 2BD23E08A4; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF367E083B; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CF7E083B for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so365472ewy.14 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:25:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=N28/+6MuVLQa1aFu8ZzoWghCBDQ8iyN5Ij6SKubQP64=; b=FL16nfl/TKVPap7jPhgJ249oAYhPxQg3edYxjZaWg3iZv1V08gnEXWw2859yVZYoHB xCmmx31qzh4uOkic8wzh5sI65wYWhbo6RejcPspMbdggcyQYkHcX6mj/vxRsAGgThxR5 vG+eqqgT2JEj5Cz9dZZGSMdXSr+5dzEhhLTUw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=QGY5eueoRIi/nbacWA2gLwitcdKTGvUKJLP+gG8K9VmFF4H7ocvrB0OfpxfU2rTocq LhqC82/3bVMVDpfDEzQYo3iky+VGkubjuRbnw2FT98YTvS6Twg5WwABd2C9O2Uqd/HJC 09KwNP3g8EbvVZqGVXKCCaiwNh7PcFhd3bjic= Received: by 10.210.112.1 with SMTP id k1mr8456430ebc.5.1251303914859; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coercion ([91.191.238.58]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm121579eya.3.2009.08.26.09.25.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:24:56 +0600 From: Mike Kazantsev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support Message-ID: <20090826222456.5cb0102a@coercion> In-Reply-To: <4A955718.40500@limuru.com> References: <470032.71964.qm@web51303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090826161308.1ea53c02@coercion> <4A955718.40500@limuru.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/OrRhIk7oysCYb2MFkxKjb.6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7ee31eab-962c-4744-ac72-29c201907b11 X-Archives-Hash: 250ed077193a2a20ff3441750387c3a5 --Sig_/OrRhIk7oysCYb2MFkxKjb.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:39:04 -0600 Anthony Mutiso wrote: > Wikipedia says that after > 3 disks you start to saturate the controller. Guess I was wrong about the whole 'Port Multiplication' thing, if it works in that mode. Still, the original post also mentions that it's an H/W RAID controller, so I guess the problem can be negated just by packing disks into RAID0 or linear array, so it'll be one channel instead of three separate ones. Kinda curious about it's performance - H/W RAID cards seem to be more expensive than fifty pounds and this one shouldn't have any interface to draw power from CPU via OS drivers. --=20 Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net --Sig_/OrRhIk7oysCYb2MFkxKjb.6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqVYdwACgkQASbOZpzyXnF7bgCg3gEllrkqE3j744YxoYl83fIj onYAoKkWL/6Frur9BKuzugh/OSDChz/v =QqY3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/OrRhIk7oysCYb2MFkxKjb.6--