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.
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