Problems with PCI SATA Controller

[Peter Hoskin]

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
> Unfortunately the sii 3112 is a bit of a horror....numerous people 
> have experienced issues with it (web search on "sii 3112 data 
> corruption" makes quite interesting reading).
>
> I seem to recall a posting suggesting that some success might be had 
> with just 1 SATA channel (i.e 1 disk) attached, however I can't find 
> it offhand.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
*sigh*

I guess I'll be taking the card back and getting some PATA -> SATA adaptors.

I need two drives as I wish to do a mirrored RAID, which with this card 
seems to be out of the question.

Regards,
Peter Hoskin