On 8/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Logan</b> <<a href="mailto:bert@p3rf3ct.com">bert@p3rf3ct.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Harry Orenstein wrote:<br>> This is definitely off topic for this list, but I think that this is a good<br>> place to ask, so...<br>><br>> I have a MB (Asus A7V8X-X) that does not have SATA ports and only supports PCI
<br>> cards. I want to add storage to be able to keep more recorded programs, so I<br>> bought a 500GB SATA HD. The question is, what is the best SATA chipset for<br>> PCI? My choices are either a no-name SIL3112 card, a no-name VIA6421 card or
<br>> a Promise S150-TX2plus.<br>><br>> Between these choices, does anyone have a suggestion? I run FC6 and plan on<br>> going to F7 or F8 eventually, if that makes any difference. My concerns are<br>> what is currently best supported by libata and what will be best supported by
<br>> libata in the future. I fully intend to eventually upgrade my MB and go to<br>> onboard SATA, but until then...<br><br>Ive had the same issue - using a noname SIL3112 card - uses the<br>sata_sil module - no issues - been running it for several months
<br>now.<br></blockquote></div><br>I'm currently running FC4 on an Asus A7N8X-DLX board on my MythBE. I've got 5 x 500GB Seagate SATA II drives (software RAID 5) 4 of which are running off a Promise 300TX4 PCI card. The fifth is running off one of the onboard SATA I interfaces. It's been running great since February when I built the array. There have been no problems with throughput with this odd setup either. I would really recommend that card as I just plugged it in and it worked.
<br><br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102065">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102065</a><br><br>I don't recall paying that price for it, but it still works great. I also picked up one of these to make pulling drives easy if/when one of them goes.
<br><br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817995001">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817995001</a><br><br>It's all working great. Good luck!<br><br>Jim<br>