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On 10/04/12 00:32, Andrew Cooks wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Tim
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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.<br>
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Resurrecting the dead, but this is a cautionary tale:
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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.<br>
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Thanks for the heads up!<br>
I wasn't planning on any virtual machines, so hopefully this won't
be a problem!<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Tim<br>
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