Installing a PCI Card with SATA ports Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 12:58 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed (659 messages posted) Can anyone recommend a suitable PCI card to add to a WinME 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 SATA hard disk larger than 137GB under WinME. 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. one on which no RAID support exists unless you install it from the driver CD). Ed Responses to this message: re: Installing a PCI Card with SATA ports (Ricer46: Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 7:19 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Installing a PCI Card with SATA ports (Ed: Sat, Jun 20, 2009, 12:58 pm) re: Installing a PCI Card with SATA ports (Ricer46: Sun, Aug 9, 2009, 7:19 am) re: Installing a PCI Card with SATA ports (Ed: Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 8:59 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum