Can anyone recommend a motherboard with at least 8 AHCI configurable SATA 3Gb/s ports? If not I would also accept recommendations for a decent, low cost 4+ port SATA controller card (needs AHCI, PCIe, and SATA 3Gb/s) that would work well with Linux.
My file server's motherboard is very unstable now. I have a RAID5 array with 7 drives + 1 hot swap using Linux software RAID. The current motherboard is an A8N-SLI Deluxe and only has SATA I on 4 of the ports so I'd like to go for AHCI on all 8 from the start.
I was looking at the Asus P5Q Premium and Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 untill I digged down and found that the SiI 5723 may not be what I want. I'm fairly certain that they only support SATA in RAID or in IDE mode (no AHCI.) If I'm wrong please let me know. I looked through all of Asus' offerings and didn't see anything that would suit my needs but haven't had a chance to look at some of the other top manufacturers.
I was also looking at the lower cost 4 port SATA controllers on Newegg (High Point, Adaptec and Rosewill) but I'm not sure how compatible they are with Linux. Any help here would be appreciated.
My file server's motherboard is very unstable now. I have a RAID5 array with 7 drives + 1 hot swap using Linux software RAID. The current motherboard is an A8N-SLI Deluxe and only has SATA I on 4 of the ports so I'd like to go for AHCI on all 8 from the start.
I was looking at the Asus P5Q Premium and Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 untill I digged down and found that the SiI 5723 may not be what I want. I'm fairly certain that they only support SATA in RAID or in IDE mode (no AHCI.) If I'm wrong please let me know. I looked through all of Asus' offerings and didn't see anything that would suit my needs but haven't had a chance to look at some of the other top manufacturers.
I was also looking at the lower cost 4 port SATA controllers on Newegg (High Point, Adaptec and Rosewill) but I'm not sure how compatible they are with Linux. Any help here would be appreciated.
