Hi, Eve. These days, you might consider Serial Attached SCSI gadgetry. 
That way, you can use nice, fast, standard external cabling, and nice, 
predictable controllers from folks like LSI and Adaptec which will work 
with SL. SAS works with SATA drives.

-Jan

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:39:52 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Eve V. E. Kovacs <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Addonics SATA port multiplier or similar
> 
> Hi,
> We are looking at buying an external enclosure which provides
> a way to connect 5 SATA drives via one eSATA port.
> The hardware is by Addonics, and is listed as
> AD5SAPM-E 5x1 eSATA Port Multiplier
>
> The question is: does it work with SL4.4?
>
> I have searched the release notes for various keywords such as
> Addonics, "port multiplier" etc and could not find any reference.
>
> Has anyone tried this hardware, or know of something similar
> that will work with SL4.4? We are looking to expand our disk space, but can't 
> add any more internal drives to the system.
>
> Thanks,
> Eve
>
>