On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:16 PM tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:10:51 -0500
> o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > Greetings
> >
> > Bought a mobo that said that there was room for 8 SATA ports and 2 M2 drives.
> >
> > It took looking in the fine print to find that when using M2 drives
> > that one loses an
> > SATA port for each M2 drive.
> >
> > So in a system with 2 M2s and a pair of SSDs for the operating system
> > I've only got space left for 4 SATA drives - - - - and I have 5 that
> > are to be placed in the case after everything is set up.
> >
> > The case has room for some over 20 more drives than I'm starting with
> > so space is NOT an issue.
> >
> > Have found some PCIe 3.0 cards with 16 SATA port count.
> >
> > Do I need any kind of special driver to use this many SATA ports?
>
> What kind of SATA cards (brand, model, chip)?
>
>

SATA PCIe Adapter 16 Port SATA III to PCI Express 3.0 X1 Controller
Expansion Card ASM1064 JBM575 Chip
from newegg .ca at under $140 w/o taxes.

There is only some $20 difference or so from some of the 8 port cards
to this one.
There are drivers mentioned for Windows but I can't find anything when
I'm searching
for linux + PCIe + card + SATA controller + drivers + ASM 1064 so
thought I would
tap the community to find answer(s).

TIA