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.
I'd forget those and buy a 3ware card - supported and reliable. Possibly
a little more expensive... but they are available 2nd hand on ebay,
which should help:
http://cgi.ebay.com/hardware-raid-card-3ware-8006-2LP-2-port-SATA-RAID_W0QQitemZ140300178432QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item140300178432&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50
regards
Mark
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