Problems with PCI SATA Controller
Mark Kirkwood
markir at paradise.net.nz
Fri Jan 20 22:57:43 PST 2006
Peter Hoskin wrote:
> 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
>
>
The Promise 2 channel cards (TX2200, TX2300) seem to work quite well
(and are reasonably cheap).
regards
Mark
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