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 at 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, > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ____________________________ John Moylan <john.moylan at rte.ie> RTE Publishing Tel: 00 353 1 2083564 | www.rte.ie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070404/c52b27e3/attachment-0004.html> -------------- next part -------------- *********************************************************** The information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please note that emails to, from and within RT? may be subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1997 and may be liable to disclosure. ************************************************************