[ale] SATA PCI cards

[Greg Clifton]

I'm no expert on the matter, but a lot of the early "el cheapo" controllers
using the Silicon Image chip set had problems with Linux. I think the
problems were resolved with later iterations of Linux. So from my
understanding your chances of success increase with the newness of the
version you are running of your preferred distro.

Happy Thanksgiving and Christmas, too, if this works for you.


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> Anyone have experience with the low cost PCI SATA cards on Newegg/Amazon
> (like the ones from Rosewill, Syba, etc.) on their linux boxes?  I think
> my Christmas present to myself is going to be a card and SATA drive to
> replace a dying IDE drive in my mail server.  I just want to do a single
> drive system so it's got to be bootable even on an old motherboard.
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