lynx74

I did some tests also and still no go with 9172. I recently bought a PCI-E card with 4 sata III ports (88SE9215) (no raid support) : it works perfectly (compatibility & performance with no raid / single volumes)

Hi, I've left a post here concerning Marvell SE9172 : viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10958

Hi, I've found a very interesting post here : http://lime-technology.com/forum/index. ... ic=40683.0 According to this link, it seems to be specific to linux (Xpenology) and maybe with some virtualization stuff (VT-d option in BIOS). Some users are reporting success with the following workaround : add iommu=pt to the append line of your syslinux.conf file on your boot flash. I've not tried yet...