My expérience !!!
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* MARVELL 88SE91xx FIRMWARE STUPID *
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WITH :
little ASROCK PCI-e card price < 20 $ ( 88SE9123 )
little ASUS U3S6 Pci-e + USB3 ( 88SE9123 )
no RAID but my 2 enclosures with each 4 disks are all disks detected ( total 8 disks )
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WITH :
1 - IOISATA 88SE9128 PCI-e CARD ( RAID option )
2 – GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD5 same port 88SE9128 same firmware same problem …
Same enclosures but ONLY 7 disks detected by WINXP
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BUT MRU detect 8 disks !!!!
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Why this big stupidity ?
I have also RR622 Rocket Raid RR622 no problem hardware is the same with a little I2C Philips
Firmware is make by HighPoint , and i can use in RAID 0 , 1 , 5 , 10 !!!
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With the little ASUS or ASRock PCIe card i have also a beautiful bug :
- if i plug in same time the RR622 card , the disks connected to the RR622 are not detected !!
- Sure that is the Marvell firmware because after a little modification of the firmware i can see my disks connected to the HighPoint card ...
Why Great Company as GigaByte or Asus use this very basic firmware ?
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Pierre