Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

[Dale]

Neil Walker wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want.  But I have an
>> external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard.  Not internal, and not
>> PCI-E.  Anybody know of such a beast
>
> A quick Google led to this:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003
>
> Be lucky,
>
> Neil
>
>

Dale makes a note of this.  Questions:  If I buy this card and a SATA 
hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will the 
PCI bus limit it somehow?  I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/sec on my IDE 
drives. Would this setup be any faster?

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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