Hello, I am using one of these add-in cards (PCI, 2 channel SATA) for the exact same purpose you mentioned. I had some problems in the beginning, but after I upgraded the firmware to the latest non-RAID version, it is working fine here.
Fabian pciide1 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "CMD Technology SiI3512 SATA" rev 0x01: DMA pciide1: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt pciide1: port 0: device present, speed: 1.5Gb/s On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:53:43PM +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > On szo, j?n 16, 2012 at 19:10:09 +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > It should work fine, this is the same controller as in the > > Thecus N1200 for example. It isn't sili(4) but rather pciide(4), see > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4 > > Thanks Jonathan, I'll get one then. I overlooked the pciide(4) page.