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.