[Cialug] SATA add-in cards that work with Linux

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

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).

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
wrote:

>  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.
>
> -Nate
>
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> *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Anthony Jeffries
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:09 PM
> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [Cialug] SATA add-in cards that work with Linux
>
>  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.
>
> We're using these: http://store.3ware.com/?category=10&subcategory=14
>
> 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.
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Nate
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