On 03/08/11 8:20 PM, Michel Donais wrote:
I intend to replace fading SCSI drive by a SATA one. The motherboard is PCI and no SATA controller on board. So I need a SATA/PCI controller. Is there something wrong to do this kind of switch? Some told me that I won't be able to boot that drive. Loosing part of the SATA interface speed is not a decisive factor on this machine Is there are some prefered Linux SATA controller?
oldschool desktop 32bit 33Mhz parallel PCI will be a performance bottleneck for more than 1 SATA drive.
Is your server PCI 32bit, PCI 64bit, or PCI-X (64bit, 100-133Mhz), or is it PCI-Express and if so does it have x4 or faster slots?
As someone else said, a SATA card likely will NOT be bootable, unless it has a boot eeprom on it, and these cost more.