I have had good luck with Rosewill stuff but the heads up on this piece is welcome.
fp At 12:10 PM 11/22/2008, Winterlight Poked the stick with: >About 18 months ago I wanted to add external SATA ports to one of my PCs. >Newegg had a sale plus rebate deal on a Rosewill RC-209 that was too good to >ignore... I think after I got the rebate it cost me 15 bucks. It is a 4 port >RAID controller that can be set up with or without external ports in just >about any configuration you want. This is done by hardware jumpers. They now >have a RC-209 EX that is, according to their site, identical with the one >difference of < hot swapable> external ports. > >18 months ago I tried to install it on a straightforward and 100 percent >compatible / reliable Intel 865PERL motherboard. I couldn't get it installed >because windows wouldn't recognize it and match it to the driver. I tried >moving it to other PCI slots with or without an internal, or external drive >configuration. Nothing worked. I wrote tech support who never bothered to >reply and eventually I decided that it had to be something tweaked in XP2, so >I pulled the card, and forgot about it. > >Now I am redoing that computer for another job, and I have it in another case, >PS, video card, everything is new to the board including a new install of XP2 >and, like usual it runs great. So I thought I would try the Rosewill again. >Same problem. It is acting like a device that I am trying to install the wrong >driver to, like I have the b version of the hardware and I am trying to >install the d version drivers. I can force a install but I end up with a >yellow triangle. > >The driver is 11 months old and there is a wide range of drivers posted for >everything from 98 through Vista 64. This time, after the correct driver >failed, I tried installing the driver for the new RC-209 EX version, then I >tried installing the driver for the onboard chip = SI 3114 , and while windows >let me force the install, it also yellow triangeled. > >Any ideas? > > >BTW Rosewill sucks, Cheap crappy hardware. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Why solve problems you can bypass with a GOTO?
