Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Second drive on VT6421

[Philippe LeCavalier]

Excerpts from Krzysztof Halasa's message of Sat Mar 12 16:06:25 -0500 2011:
> Philippe LeCavalier <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > There must be something about that chip...Perhaps the way the firmware
> > allocates the bandwidth. ie 2 channels with a total of 3Gbps then a
> > second drive cannot coexists if the first requests all 3Gbps?!
> 
> I think VT6421(A) is 1.5 Gb/s only.
> To be honest, It was never able to get it to work reliably, esp. with
> Transcend and/or Kingston SSDs.
I'm confident you're right. I just haven't come across any doc outlining
that. Since I resolved this, the drives have been running stable no
issues at all.
-- 
Thanks,
Phil
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