Suggestions for eSATA PCIe cards supported under 14.04 amd64?

[Brandon Vincent]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:12 PM, E-Neutrino <e-neutrino at web.de> wrote:
>  Has someone here such a card in use and can share model and brand, and
>  which driver s/he uses?

You're going to want a AHCI compliant SATA card for the greatest
chance of reliability. For example, the SIIG SC-SA0R11-S1 uses the
Marvell 88SE9230 (a very common) chipset.

Support for this chipset should work right out of the box with the
generic "ahci" driver.

>From the 3.13.0-24-generic kernel source:

    { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL_EXT, 0x9230),
      .driver_data = board_ahci_yes_fbs },

Brandon Vincent