Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

[Brett I. Holcomb]

What kind of motherboard do you have?  I have two older boards that it just 
doesn't work on.  I have a Tyan Tiger MPX and an ASUS A7M266-D.  On both I 
can install the OS by booting from the LiveCD on one system and using XP Pro 
on the other system.  The drives are seen and the install goes well.  
However, when I reboot and try and start the OS there is no drive.  In the 
BIOS I see no entries for the drives or Syba.  I see no messages during boot 
up from the card either.

Any tricks to get it working?

On Monday January 9 2006 10:35, Bill Roberts wrote:
> I just bought this sata controller:
>
> SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA /IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid
>
> Cost was $11.60 at Newegg. Gives you two satas, one ide. Only has one sata
> cable with it, and you will need sata power-adapters, depending on the sata
> drives you buy. Works well with the following kernel settings.
>
> CONFIG_SCSI=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y
>
> Good luck.
>
> Bill Roberts
>
> On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan     , Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID
> > (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up
> > too well) and am looking at going with SATA.  Some input from the those
> > with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated.
> >
> > 1.  SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have
> > you found to work? Is Promise any good?  What are some good brands
> >
> > 2.  Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well.  I've
> > crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the
> > Ultrastores.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
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> >
> > Brett I. Holcomb
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