SATA to PCI cards

[Jack Stone]

>From: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar at gmail.com>
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: SATA to PCI cards
>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:39:01 +0330
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm running FreeBSD 6.2.
>$ uname -a
>FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27
>UTC 2007     root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>  i386
>
>My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I
>searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards
>for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any
>problem with FreeBSD 6.2?
>
>By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to 
>buy.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Bahman

Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are 
using this method to evolve older machines to SATA.

HTH....

Jack

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