The older card has a mixed history. Under Windows family OS people (including me) have reported great success and seem satisfied with its performance. Under Linux, not so good. The biggest difference seems to be the qualify of the drivers. There is also a complete lack for support for Solaris and BSD derived systems which has diminished interest in the card (which is really too bad, because this could be an excellent card for ZFS-based systems). Monster Hunter Iso For Ppsspp on this page. Looking around a bit, it seems that the driver model for the 6480 and 9480 are identical and both cards are supported (at least on Linux) by exactly the same driver. On the Linux forums there is discussion of support for the 9480 simply by updating the driver to recognize the card's ID string.

This is not good news, since the #1 fault with the older SASLP-MV8 was buggy/missing drivers. If SM and/or Marvell would release working drivers for Linux and perhaps even drivers for Solaris or BSD based systems this could be a card worth a look.

Jan 21, 2012 I lost my driver disk for my Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8 port sata card. I am having a heck of a time finding drivers for this card to work in WHS.

Without them, unless you are running on Windows, pass. I realize this is quite an old thread, but had some questions regarding this (or any HBA only card) that I was unable to answer on other forums. I have an Ubuntu Server which I would like to expand the disk capacity. As far as I can tell for this card, drivers and firmware aren't a major issue. I have seen they do support 3TB drives, which is what I will be connecting. Obviously hardware RAID would be the way to go, but for the cost and somewhat limited drive support (for the most part), I would like to stick with simple mdadm. My question: If I connected hard drives to this card, would they show in the OS as each individual drive so as to support software RAID or would this card simply JBOD them all together?

Called Supermicro today -- they say its my hard drives causing the issue; I think its just an excuse. I am using Samsung F4 HD204UI and/or WD EARS 2TB -- either/all work with the onboard controller and in other computers with no problems. Anyhow -- anyone have any suggestions? I am using a Supermicro X9SCM-F-O board with 3x AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 with the latest firmware/drivers. The issue I'm having is that the card will drop all connected drives when large data transfers occur. I even put a 120mm high speed fan over the cards thinking it was a heat related issue. I'm also running FlexRAID (snapshot + pool) with an AOC-SASLP, 3x 2TB WD EARS/EARX (DRU) and 1x 2TB Hitachi 7K2000 (PPU) for roughly 6TB of usable data.

Have you always had this problem or is this a new build? How are you copying data over (e.g., external hard drive, network, etc.)? How many drives are you running and how are they connected? Any on the motherboard, all from the HBA's, or both? Are you sure this is not a FlexRAID problem? When you say the hard drives 'drop,' do you mean Windows shows the hard drive disappearing, and/or the FlexRAID storage pool has stopped? When was the last time you validated your pool?

Maybe it's data/pool corruption and you need to resync. For hardware, I couldn't get the M1015 (flashed to IT mode) to let the drives spindown no matter what I tried and set.

Not sure if that matters to you but it did for me which is why I passed on the newer SAS2LP. This is a brand new build with freshly installed W2K8 and Flexraid. The drives are clean of data and data is being transferred over a 1gb network connection.

The drives are also connected with a 8087 (or whatever) forward cable, minisas to 4x sata. I've tried different cables as well. When large amounts of data are being copied over the network to the Flexraid pool, the transfer will stop/freeze after about 2-10minutes of copying. The drives will then drop out of the device manager in Windows -- Flexraid will list the drives as missing once the disk config is refreshed. I should also note I now have the parity drives hooked to the motherboard sata and that is never affected by the issue. At first, I did have the parity drive connected to the HBA and the issue was still occurring.

I haven't tried: • Copying local data to the drives, eliminating the network all together. • Hooking all drives to the motherboard and transferring data to see if the issue is Flexraid/drives/network. Platformer Ragdoll Game. Well, a few things: - Go to the FlexRAID forums and post your logs.