[mythtv-users] S-ATA Card recommendation

[Ajay Sharma]

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2004, at 22:20, Steve Dorsey wrote:
> 
>>  I have 2 SATA drives and an Intel D845EBT Mobo. I'd like to use the 
>> drives on my MythTV box. Can anyone recommend a good cheap PCI SATA 
>> card which will be fully Linux compatible and will work with MythTV?
> 
> I believe the best supported SATA chipsets are the ones from 3ware. No 
> extra drivers needed, they use the same driver as 3ware PATA chipsets, 
> which has been in the kernel for some time.

Yes.  I totally agree.

While 3ware cards aren't cheap they are worth every penny since they 
install as easy as a normal IDE drive.  Everything is detected on boot 
and since their drivers have been in the 2.4 kernel for a while you 
don't have to run any closed-source binaries or funky kernel patches.

I've built three IDE Raid servers at work and I'm using their card at 
home for SATA duties.

later,
ajay

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Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma
RevShare Corp
System Administrator