Re: add-in IDE and/or SATA card recommendations
"Ed Heron" <[email protected]>
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It does have two really long PCI slots. but the 64-bit card was out of stock. Maybe I should look elsewhere fro the 64-bit version. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Browne" <[email protected]> To: "New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [NMLUG] add-in IDE and/or SATA card recommendations > Ed Heron wrote: >> How do you guys feel about Highpoint? Can anybody relate any personal >> experiences? >> >> NewEgg has >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115008 >> for my existing PATA drives... >> >> And I don't need hardware RAID, so I could consider >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816104006 > Newegg allows user reviews - even when you didn't buy the item from them > - so you can get some idea. However, I used an ATA66 to ATA133 > Highpoint-system way back when; it was incorporated into a Promise > controller card. I didn't like it because the controller's bios made the > boot-up excruciatingly long. Maybe that has improved. And I suggested > the Koutech 64-bit PCI SATA II card (not the 32-bit) because your mobo > has two 64-bit PCI slots, or so I read in the specs. > > Steve > > - - - > Stephen B. Browne > [email protected] > "Ubi bene, ibi patria." _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug