[wellylug] PCI SATA controllers

andrej at paradise.net.nz andrej at paradise.net.nz
Wed Dec 19 14:10:02 NZDT 2007


Quoting David Antliff:
> Hi John,
David,


> a). whether PCI SATA adapters (used to install a SATA hard disk in an
> older machine) tend to work out-of-the-box in Linux, and
I don't know the controller you pointed to on the ascent site,
but I purchased one from DSE about a year ago that "just worked".

And I had to buy it not for an old PC, but a too new one.
It had an ASUS mobo that used a SATA chipset, support for which 
only got into the kernel about 6 weeks after I bought it ;}


> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> David.
-- Cheers,
Andrej




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