[plug] [OT] Server Hardware "shops"

[Tim White]

On 10/04/12 00:32, Andrew Cooks wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Tim White <weirdit at gmail.com 
> <mailto:weirdit at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     In the near future I'm looking at building my own server that will
>     eventually take upto maybe 8 HDDs for storage requirements, as
>     well as being a server for a number of functions.
>
>
> Resurrecting the dead, but this is a cautionary tale:
> If the other functions you mention involve virtual machines with VGA 
> pass-though, like for a media centre for example, Marvell SATA 
> controllers will cause problems and you'll have to disable either the 
> SATA controller or VT-d (and therefore any device pass-though). There 
> has been some discussion about this on LKML and it seems like a pci 
> quirk patch could be created, but I haven't found one yet. This will 
> also affect PCIe cards based on the same controller, afaik.

Thanks for the heads up!
I wasn't planning on any virtual machines, so hopefully this won't be a 
problem!

Thanks

Tim
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