Recent content by trojanfoe

Great stuff - thanks guys. The seller of the card has kindly offered to send me a SAS cable (that he says will be compatible with my SATA drives), so I'll take it from there. Cheers, Andy

You mentioned 'crossover wiring' earlier - how would you recognize that in an item description.

Here's the link: cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280572060952&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Thanks for the reply. Why would you suspect the card over the cable? The card 'works' in as much as the WebBIOS functions and I have been able to examine all of its attributes via the Linux driver and even update the firmware within Linux using MegaCLI. If it's broken then I will get a refund...

Hi all, I currently run a home Linux server using Linux software RAID-5 (/dev/md) but I want to increase performance so I have bought a cheap SAS MegaRAID 8408e and a SFF-8484 to 4 x SATA cable (from China). However I cannot see any physical drives. I have managed to update the firmware on...