SATA PCI adapter recommendation
Oliver Fromme
I plan to put a SATA drive in an old PATA-only PC, so I'm
looking for an appropriate adapter card. A cheap card
should suffice, I do not need RAID, and it does not have
to be SATA-300. (This machine has only standard PCI slots
anyway, so it wouldn't be able to saturate SATA-300.)
I'm currently looking at these, all of which are about
20 Euro around here:
1. Based on Silicon Image Sil-3x12 chip:
http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111816_Datasheet.pdf
2. Based on Initio INIC1620 chip:
http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111817_Datasheet.pdf
3. Some VIA chip (probably VT6421A, but not 100% clear):
http://www.delock.de/view/pdf/70156/A/1943/
I've read a few scary things about SIL chips on the lists,
so I guess I'd better try to avoid that one.
But how about the Initio and VIA ones? Do they work well
with FreeBSD? Any good or bad experiences?
Finally, a small question: I assume that all of those
SATA controllers do have their own BIOS, so I can boot
from them, right? It would be annoying to have to keep
an old PATA disk in that box just to be able to boot.
Thanks!
Best regards
Oliver
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which is a shame :(
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Mark Kirkwood
> Hi,
>
> I plan to put a SATA drive in an old PATA-only PC, so I'm
> looking for an appropriate adapter card. A cheap card
> should suffice, I do not need RAID, and it does not have
> to be SATA-300. (This machine has only standard PCI slots
> anyway, so it wouldn't be able to saturate SATA-300.)
>
> I'm currently looking at these, all of which are about
> 20 Euro around here:
>
> 1. Based on Silicon Image Sil-3x12 chip:
> http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111816_Datasheet.pdf
>
> 2. Based on Initio INIC1620 chip:
> http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111817_Datasheet.pdf
>
> 3. Some VIA chip (probably VT6421A, but not 100% clear):
> http://www.delock.de/view/pdf/70156/A/1943/
>
> I've read a few scary things about SIL chips on the lists,
> so I guess I'd better try to avoid that one.
> But how about the Initio and VIA ones? Do they work well
> with FreeBSD? Any good or bad experiences?
>
> Finally, a small question: I assume that all of those
> SATA controllers do have their own BIOS, so I can boot
> from them, right? It would be annoying to have to keep
> an old PATA disk in that box just to be able to boot.
>
>
I'd forget those and buy a 3ware card - supported and reliable. Possibly
a little more expensive... but they are available 2nd hand on ebay,
which should help:
regards
Mark
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Dieter
> looking for an appropriate adapter card. A cheap card
> should suffice, I do not need RAID, and it does not have
> to be SATA-300.
> 1. Based on Silicon Image Sil-3x12 chip:
> http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111816_Datasheet.pdf
> I've read a few scary things about SIL chips on the lists,
> so I guess I'd better try to avoid that one.
The bad things I've read are all regarding the first generation
SIL chips with FreeBSD. They work fine with NetBSD (and other OSes)
so the problem is with the FreeBSD device driver. I haven't seen
anything (pro or con) about the 2nd generation chips e.g. Sil 3124
with FreeBSD. The 2nd gen chips are supposed to be much better and
faster than the 1st gen chips. Does anyone have experience to report
with the Sil 3124 (PCI), Sil 3132 (PCIe) or other 2nd generation Sil
chip with FreeBSD?
> Finally, a small question: I assume that all of those
> SATA controllers do have their own BIOS, so I can boot
> from them, right? It would be annoying to have to keep
> an old PATA disk in that box just to be able to boot.
This may depend on the firmware on the mainboard?