I bought a Skymaster 2 port SATA card that uses the Silicon Image 3512 chipset. It supports hardware RAID (which I am not using). That cost $20 and I bought a 500GB Seagate (with 16MB buffer) for $99. I get around 50MB/s sustained read speed (with a 800MHz PIII running on a Intel m-board) so I am very happy. It just worked out of the box with Ubuntu 8.04.
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:26 PM, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 3 PCs which all have Gigabyte mobos with onboard PATA and SATA Raid > controllers. > > These can be set to not be RAID and under older Linux distros, > Ubuntu/Kubuntu in particular ( and drivatives thereof - ie LinuxMint etc) I > have had no problems with 3 PATA hds and a DVDRW attached to the "normal" > IDE connectors, along with SATA hds attached to the RAID connectors ( set to > BASE in th PC Bios). > > Since Ubuntu 8.04 ( and derivatives) I have not been able to :- > > 1) boot any Ubuntu/Kubuntu etc LiveCD with both PATA and SATA hds attached. > > 2) successfully install to either a PATA or SATA hd and boot due to > conflicts in the way the system sees drives/partitions. UUID's do not solve > this. > > From the Suse Community forums I see that there are problems with Promise > SATA cards/mobos, which is what are on my systems, along with Grub problems > etc. > > So, can anybody recommend a Linux compatible SATA PCI card, or a mobo ( > hopefully inexpensive) with onboard SATA that is Linux compatible? > > As I have several SATA hds with data that I would like to access by means > other than using an older LiveCD or installing an older distro, my only > other option is an external, multi SATA hd case, which I prefer to avoid. > > I have posted re my PATA/SATA problems here before, particularly in regard > to UUIDs. > > Thanks > > Bill > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
