Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:33:37 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SATA PCI adapter recommendation Message-ID: <200902110833.n1B8XbLo096837@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Hi, I plan to put a SATA drive in an old PATA-only PC, so I'm looking for an appropriate adapter card. A cheap card should suffice, I do not need RAID, and it does not have to be SATA-300. (This machine has only standard PCI slots anyway, so it wouldn't be able to saturate SATA-300.) I'm currently looking at these, all of which are about 20 Euro around here: 1. Based on Silicon Image Sil-3x12 chip: http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111816_Datasheet.pdf 2. Based on Initio INIC1620 chip: http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111817_Datasheet.pdf 3. Some VIA chip (probably VT6421A, but not 100% clear): http://www.delock.de/view/pdf/70156/A/1943/ I've read a few scary things about SIL chips on the lists, so I guess I'd better try to avoid that one. But how about the Initio and VIA ones? Do they work well with FreeBSD? Any good or bad experiences? Finally, a small question: I assume that all of those SATA controllers do have their own BIOS, so I can boot from them, right? It would be annoying to have to keep an old PATA disk in that box just to be able to boot. Thanks! Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Perl will consistently give you what you want, unless what you want is consistency." -- Larry Wall
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