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.

3Ware are very reliable.

J



On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 07:40 -0400, chrism@imntv.com wrote: 
Jim Perrin wrote:
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>
> Ignore that controller and get yourself a 3ware card?

Or get one of the relatively cheap Silicon Image based SATA cards.  I 
believe those have been supported "out of the box" long enough that 4.4 
will find your disks without any additional hassle.

Cheers,

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