Thanks for the excellent rundown. >sata_sil24: 3124/3132 chips don't have any outstanding serious >problems. IRQ loss on PCI-X was the only recent serious known >problem but it's fixed now. I'm still a little confused how to translate this known-good chipset to an actual buyable PCI card. It isn't obvious from basic web searching. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html