[Gllug] SATA card recommendations.

Christopher Mocock chris at wavestore.com
Mon Oct 6 09:36:58 UTC 2008


Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
> I'd be grateful for recommendations for inexpensive PCI SATA cards
> that work fully under Linux AND support 1TB drives.
> 
> The version / distro is irrelevant as I can upgrade as required.  So
> far I only seem to find cards that satisfy only one of the criteria...
> :-/

You could try the Supermicro SAT2-MV8. It works fine on Fedora, has 8
ports, supports SATA2(300) and only costs 60-70 pounds. The only problem
is that the driver is not open source so you'll be running a tainted kernel.

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Chris
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