On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 08:32:10PM -0700, Jim Bernard wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 09:54:14PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>> >   I've recently added to an old x86 system a PCI SATA controller (VIA VT6421)
>> 
>> I have never seen one of these (VIA chip on an add-in card) work.  You
>> probably want to find some other brand of SATA controller.
>
>  Do you have any suggestions?  RAID is not of interest.

You can get a 4 channel SATA-II promise card for about $60.
2 channel are not a lot less.

// George


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