[ale] SATA PCI cards

[Alex Carver]

I'm running a fairly recent copy of Debian (it squeeze right behind the
current wheezy).  After fixing the drive I'd ramp up to wheezy but
everything currently "works" (which required breaking the way Debian
handles exim).  My only other option is to find new old-stock IDE and/or
refurb IDE drives.

On 11/27/2013 15:11, Greg Clifton wrote:
> 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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