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From: Andreas Klauer <Andreas.Klauer@metamorpher.de>
Subject: Re: Raid server Motherboard recommendation.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:11:05 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:15:01AM -0600, Ram Ramesh wrote:
>    Thanks. I did see that. But, in newegg, there are reviews dated much 
> later than above complaining about ubuntu 14.04 installs failing with 
> ASMedia enabled. So, I concluded that it is iffy. I could not see any 
> consistent message of positive result.

I use ASMedia controllers myself, onboard and as standalone card. 
They were cheap (much cheaper than getting a board with additional 
ports using the same chipset really) and I don't need the PCIe slots 
for anything else.

They work fine in AHCI mode for HDD, with mdadm software raid.

If you have a CD drive hooked to it the kernel will crash.
Until you add libata.atapi_passthru16=0 to your cmdline.

Regards
Andreas