On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 23:38 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
I went to my hardware pusher and asked about buying an SATA PCI card, and was informed that he only has the new version of PCI cards, and maybe I'd just like an new mother board with sata already on it. What I'd prefer is a PCI card that has the SATA on it, and works out of the box under linux without costing me more than the money/time that getting that new mobo would. Comments and recommendations will be greatly appreciated. BTW, the why he wants a SATA card is that I'm looking at getting a SATA drive to hold files created by myth-tv.
Mike,
I just purchased and installed a Promise SATA300 TX4 4 port 3.0G sata controller. I installed the thing in an older MSI km2m motherboard and stuck 2 500G Samsung drives on it, configured it for software RAID1, formatted and I was done.
Total noob question here, if i glom onto one of these cards will it setup in non-raid? It's beginning to look a lot like e-Bay will be the source. TigerDirect.ca has nothing for promise and about 3 IIRC SATA-PCI cards, and I have no idea of there are linux drivers for them.
The one problem with that hardware is that the linux driver (originally for RedHat and SuSE 9.3) is out of date and will not compile on 10.3 so you are limited to the performance of the default promise driver which is good ATA performance, but not the improved SATA performance. But for $65, I'm not complaining.
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