Oliver Fromme wrote:
Hi,
I plan to put a SATA drive in an old PATA-only PC, so I'm
looking for an appropriate adapter card. A cheap card
should suffice, I do not need RAID, and it does not have
to be SATA-300. (This machine has only standard PCI slots
anyway, so it wouldn't be able to saturate SATA-300.)
I'm currently looking at these, all of which are about
20 Euro around here:
1. Based on Silicon Image Sil-3x12 chip:
http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111816_Datasheet.pdf
2. Based on Initio INIC1620 chip:
http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111817_Datasheet.pdf
3. Some VIA chip (probably VT6421A, but not 100% clear):
http://www.delock.de/view/pdf/70156/A/1943/
I've read a few scary things about SIL chips on the lists,
so I guess I'd better try to avoid that one.
But how about the Initio and VIA ones? Do they work well
with FreeBSD? Any good or bad experiences?
Finally, a small question: I assume that all of those
SATA controllers do have their own BIOS, so I can boot
from them, right? It would be annoying to have to keep
an old PATA disk in that box just to be able to boot.
Thanks!
Best regards
Oliver
I have a SATA card with the Initio1662 chip and it isn't supported,
which is a shame :(
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