On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Alan wrote: > I'm looking to upgrade my fileserver with a couple or three SATA > drives and a SATA controller (will upgrade the machine itself with a > SATA enabled MB sometime next year I think). > > I'm wondering what people recommend for offboard SATA controllers. > I've seen many posts on the forums that SATA raid from the silicon > image chipset doesn't work, but I'm not worried so much about RAID > (will probably use SW raid) as just having a stable set of hard drives > available. > > Any suggestions for a cheap (<$100) SATA card (raid or non-raid) that > is compatible with linux?
This is an old message, but I just saw it and no one replied. I would go with a 3ware SATA card. My gentoo install went smooth with my WD SATA drive because the 3ware card was detected on boot. Get that, no funky patches or anything as the 3ware drivers have been in the default kernel for quite some time. This is my second 3ware card that I put Linux on and I'm just amazed at how easy it was. later, ajay -------------------------------------------------------------------- Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
