re: Installing a SATA-II disk and a SATA PCI card
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:14 pm
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Posted by bob wells
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On Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 9:29 am, Ed wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a PCI card to add to a Win9x system, that will provide at least
>one internal SATA port? My system uses PCI 2.2
>
>I'm trying to add a PCI card with 48-bit LBA, to support a new Western Digital SATA-II
>hard disk larger than 137GB.
>
>I'd prefer a PCI card with a Silicon Image chipset. I've heard VIA chipsets can
give
>problems with SATA (in regard to auto-negotiation between SATA-I and SATA-II), and
>that Silicon Image cards are therefore a better choice for adding SATA support.
Can
>anyone comment on this?
>
>I don't intend to use RAID, so I'd prefer a solution with minimum additional complications
>from that angle. Ideally, I'd prefer a PCI card that comes without RAID support
(though
>it seems to be ubiquitous if there are two or more SATA ports on the card).
>
>I'd be happy to settle for a card that has optional RAID (e.g. where the PCI card
>has the option to use a non-RAID BIOS).
>
>Are there any disadvantages to a SATA disk, compared to an IDE / PATA disk? This
>will be my first forray into SATA: I've previously only used IDE.
>
>Ed
>
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