Re: Raid server Motherboard recommendation.

[Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@gmail.com>]

On 11/12/2015 09:11 AM, Andreas Klauer wrote:
> 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
Andreas,

   Thanks a lot. Now I feel a lot more confident trying out extreme6. I 
usually put all my boot related (cd, primary sdd) on intel any way. So, 
CD drive should not be a problem.

Ramesh