On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Mike McMullin
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.
We use the sil (siig) 2-port SATA pci card all the time with suse. No issues for basic use. I think they are $30 or $40. They have a version with 2 internal sata ports, or a different one with 2 eSata ports. Both work fine. I like eSata personally because we can buy eSata enclosures ($40) and treat the drives like USB drives. We did have to download new firmware for the card for it to work with drives over 500GB. (It failed to see those drives at all in the card bios, so linux had no chance to work.) One small thing to be aware of is PCI controllers will only run at Sata-150 speeds. The traditional PCI bus is not fast enough to support sata-300. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org