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    Areca card not showing up on new MB

    So I upgraded my desktop to a new MB. AMD Ryzen on a MSI B550 Tomahawk. I have an nvidea GPU in PCIE slot 1 and the areca arc-1230 in pcie slot 3. I tried setting the pcie to gen 1 in the bios and split pcie1 into 8+8. Bios doesn't see the card and neither does win 10. It's been a while...
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    cascading SAS2 expanders

    I had read it is a bad idea to cascade sas expanders. Is this still true with SAS2? Specifically I am interested in using an areca 1882ix with built in expander connected to Supermicro 846E16 expander backplane. Also does anyone know if the 846E16 supports dual linking? Thanks Steve
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    problem w/ 5K4000

    I bought a Hitachi 4TB 5K4000 from ebay. It had a 1.6TB partition with some data on it, the rest of the drive was unallocated. No issues looking around in directories, but I only spent a few seconds since I wanted it wiped. I deleted the partition and tried a quick format of the entire drive...
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