<div dir="ltr">If you're just looking for a generic SATA card and don't care much about raid or fancy features, the cheapo, off-brand Silicon Image (SIL3112/3114 etc) cards usually work. You can pick these up cheap at a lot of places. I got one in a pinch at DIT. (sorry other computer shop owners....it was close and cheap).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Nathan C. Smith <<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Good call. I actually tried one. The long PCI-X
bus part ran into a capacitor on the mini-itx board I am using. Big bummer
there.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">-Nate</font></span></div><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org" target="_blank">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org" target="_blank">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anthony
Jeffries<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> Central
Iowa Linux Users Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cialug] SATA add-in cards that
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<div dir="ltr">As long as you're considering budgeting for a new mobo...you
might try 3ware cards first. I use them at Coach House and have had good luck
with them. There are drivers in the kernel for the cards we have. These are
not as inexpensive as you probably like, but they do work, and they are not
too spendy.<br><br>We're using these: <a href="http://store.3ware.com/?category=10&subcategory=14" target="_blank">http://store.3ware.com/?category=10&subcategory=14</a><br><br>Those
are SATA, not SATA II but they have SATA II cards as well. From what I can
tell, the PCI-X cards should be backwards-compatible with standard PCI
slots.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Nathan C. Smith <<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com" target="_blank">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Anybody
know of any (inexpensive) PCI SATA add-in cards that work with Linux that
are not based on a Promise chip? The Mobo I'm using has a promise chip
on it and it locks the machine up if I use an add-in SATA card that is based
on a Promise chip. I have tried about 3 different cards from different
manufacturers and even the Adaptec card seemed to be based on
Promise.<br><br>When I have an add-in card installed, the lock-up occurs
during the POST when the system seems to be looking for drives. I'm
thinking another chipset might be the answer, but a new mobo may be the
another
answer.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>-Nate<br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug
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