Even in case it's more work, because there are more differences between PCI and PCIe SATA controllers from Silicon Image than between the 3 supported PCI ones, ACube could easily create a sii3132ide.device if they can licence Stéphane's sii3[15]1[24]ide.device driver sources as they already implemented SII3132 support in their Sam460 U-Boot.

Better idea is to ask AmigaOS developers about SiI 3132 support.

If you want to have traditional PCIe slot instead M.2 slot, you can use M.2 NVME to PCIe passive adapter, something like this.

LiveForIt wrote:

I know of m.2 to SATA adapters, have not found a NVMe to SATA, ok I’m confused on Mirari_Schema_01-1 its NVNE, but printed on the motherboard its M.2 printed.. this hard drive sticks does not have same keying. And have complicity different transferee rates.

LiveForIt wrote:

As for PATA, you can’t find CDROM in normal stores anymore with that, in my AmigaONE-XE I have a SATA CDROM, connected to a StarTech SATA to PATA adapter it works fine.

DigitalDesigns wrote:Has the development of that web browser stopped?

kikems wrote:
Finally, in 2025, I received and offert to upgrade my SAM460LE and pay a little extra to get an X5040.

PCIe x4 slot with one lane occupied (T10x2 PCIe 2.0; T2081 PCIe 3.0)

...do PCIe splitters often/sometimes work without firmware or drivers? Any such remaining cards might be satisfied with one lane each, and a PCIe 4x splitter like this

https://www.amfeltec.com/flexible-x4-pci-express-4way-splitter/

says that it functions right out of the box.

This is the pure hardware solution and it transparent to OS.

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With an NVMe adapter and networking and sound on the motherboard, there may not be much need for extra cards, but do PCIe splitters often/sometimes work without firmware or drivers? Any such remaining cards might be satisfied with one lane each, and a PCIe 4x splitter like this

Same as above, needs driver and also kernel support. I think this was addressed in the (yet unreleased) pegasos2 kernel so it may be possible to write bridge driver, question is if they are willing to port AmigaOS to this board. Things that are plug and play on Linux are not necessarily work on other OSes. They work on Linux as it has drivers for a lot of hardware.

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As development proceeds I would be curious if anybody (maybe only Geennaam himself?) could venture a guess as to the nature of the X5000's DMA issues. Because A-Eon and Hyperion aren't talking.

What does Geennaam have to do with X5000? It's A-Eon's board so they have to find out.

AFAIU it isn't Geennaam's project but Skateman's primarily with Geennaam helping with design and development but he does not have to care about how it will be produced or what will happen afterwards.