SATA drive and PATA-only motherboard

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 12 03:26:15 UTC 2009


D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> SATA drives are cheaper and larger these days.
> I want to use SATA drives with computers without SATA controllers.
> I don't want to add a PCI card SATA controller because I'm short of PCI slots.
[snip]

I have the same need but I don't mind a PCI card, not PCI-e. Are there
PCI SATA controller cards that are Linux-friendly? Spending a bunch of
money on a RAID card would obviate the point of doing this so that's
another factor.
-- 
Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis
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Toronto, ON
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