Subject: Re: HELP w/SATA addon controller
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Jason White <jdwhite@menelos.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/24/2007 00:17:18
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 at 13:00, Paul Newhouse <newhouse@rockhead.com> wrote:
>Running 3.0.1 and 3.1
>
>I've had two SATA drives land in my lap.  The system I'd like to
>add them into doesn't have any SATA capability.  Looking at the 
>SATA support I don't see any controllers that are supported that
>make financial sense for the system.  I'm wondering if the there
>are addon SATA cards that don't need special support if I'm not 
>going to use the RAID functionality? 
>
>I'm looking for a simple 2 port card that works with NetBSD.
>I'm hoping someone can recommend some brand name models (I have
>a hard time figuring out what chips are in some of these products).

  The Silicon Image 3112 (two port) and 3114 (four port) cards are supported.
  Searching by chipset number or chipset name on newegg.com and came up with
  a couple, one of them being:

  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816132006

-Jason

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