re: Installing a PCI Card with SATA ports Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 7:19 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (22014 messages posted) Your question is really inappropriate for this forum. Try Google. look here On Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 12:58 pm, Ed wrote: >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 > Written in response to: Installing a PCI Card with SATA ports (Ed: Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 12:58 pm) Responses to this message: re: Installing a PCI Card with SATA ports (Ed: Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 8:59 pm) 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