[ale] SATA PCI cards

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Wed Nov 27 18:42:15 EST 2013


Actually, the other (more expensive) option is to get one of the new
Intel NUCs (but one with internal SATA and space for a drive) and then
migrate my email server to that.

On 11/27/2013 15:24, Alex Carver wrote:
> 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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