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From my research a couple years ago it seemed like most issues involved feeding a bridge into a port multiplier, so I got a multi drive enclosure with no multip
by Dylan16807 1y ago
From my research a couple years ago it seemed like most issues involved feeding a bridge into a port multiplier, so I got a multi drive enclosure with no multipliers. I've had no problems so far even with a disk dying in it.
Though even flaky adapters just tend to lock up, I think.
- riobard 1y agoAh yes! Port multiplier is usually the source of most evils (after flaky bridge chips). Unfortunately enclosure makers seldom reveal the internal topology and usually only test again Windows, and Linux kernel has a long blacklist of bad bridge chips…