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Be careful with the Sil chips, some of them will not support certain HDD's at the HW level. I had a problem with Maxtor DiamondMax10 300GB SATA150 disks. My Sil controller would not support staggered spin up and the drives simply wouldn't power on.<BR>
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3Ware are very reliable.<BR>
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On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 07:40 -0400, chrism@imntv.com wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Jim Perrin wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Any ideas ?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Ignore that controller and get yourself a 3ware card?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Or get one of the relatively cheap Silicon Image based SATA cards. I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">believe those have been supported "out of the box" long enough that 4.4 </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">will find your disks without any additional hassle.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Cheers,</FONT>
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