Getting SATA working

[Tony Alfrey]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> This is another 'SOLVED' SATA issue. Llama was right that the card 
> wasn't POSTing. The magic fix was to move it to a different PCI slot. 
> Now it POSTs and Linux sees the disks with no problem. I think it may 
> have been getting lost behind a SCSI controller that was earlier in the 
> PCI slots.
> 
> Like Tony, I'm now sold on SYBA SATA cards.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Hipp wrote:
>> I'm trying to add SATA to one of my servers with a Syba card: 
>> http://www.syba.com/product/43/02/05/index.html

It's interesting that they don't show that this card supports linux in 
their system requirements section in their advertising, while it is 
clearly just the 4-port version of the card I picked up.  They need to 
work on their marketing.


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Tony Alfrey
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