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Solid 4-port Sata II controller/adapter
I'm currently using Syba 4-port SATA (I, not II) controllers. They're
picky about which card slot they're installed in. Not sure if this is normal, but I'd like to find new controllers that are less touchy. May as well go for Sata II, though I've heard there isn't much actual speed difference. Anyone know of something that works well? |
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Solid 4-port Sata II controller/adapter
"_Dee" wrote:
I'm currently using Syba 4-port SATA (I, not II) controllers. They're picky about which card slot they're installed in. Not sure if this is normal, but I'd like to find new controllers that are less touchy. May as well go for Sata II, though I've heard there isn't much actual speed difference. How do you know it isn't just a bad connector on the motherboard? Have you plugged something else into that "slot"? *TimDaniels* |
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On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 00:54:42 -0700, "Timothy Daniels"
wrote: "_Dee" wrote: I'm currently using Syba 4-port SATA (I, not II) controllers. They're picky about which card slot they're installed in. Not sure if this is normal, but I'd like to find new controllers that are less touchy. May as well go for Sata II, though I've heard there isn't much actual speed difference. How do you know it isn't just a bad connector on the motherboard? Have you plugged something else into that "slot"? *TimDaniels* Tried them on a couple different machines, Tim. Yes, other cards work in the slots where the Sata cards don't. I have to keep notes on what works in which slot, in case I need to reinstall. It seems ridiculous. Besides, they are older Sata spec. Not sure if Sata II actually does anything, but I'd still like to upgrade if they are not expensive. Any ideas on a good 4-port controller card? |
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Solid 4-port Sata II controller/adapter
Previously _Dee wrote:
I'm currently using Syba 4-port SATA (I, not II) controllers. They're picky about which card slot they're installed in. Not sure if this is normal, but I'd like to find new controllers that are less touchy. May as well go for Sata II, though I've heard there isn't much actual speed difference. Anyone know of something that works well? The problem with PCI is that the slots often share interrupts with other slots and on-board peripherials. I have for example observed that a gigabit Ethernet card is usually slowed down significantly when sharing the interrupt with on-board USB. I would imagine you have such a problem as well, but to the point that functionality is impaired. I have made good experiences with promise Sata I and II controllers, but your issue may actually be a problem with the mainboard. Sorry, but nothing is simple or easy these days when computer hardware is concerned. Arno |
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Solid 4-port Sata II controller/adapter
"_Dee" wrote:
...they are older Sata spec. Not sure if Sata II actually does anything, but I'd still like to upgrade if they are not expensive. Any ideas on a good 4-port controller card? Sorry, I'm still in the parallel ATA world. For my "trailing edge" tastes, SATA is still a technology catching up to specs. Hey, I'm still looking for a RAID card for floppy drives. :-) *TimDaniels* |
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Solid 4-port Sata II controller/adapter
_Dee wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 00:54:42 -0700, "Timothy Daniels" wrote: "_Dee" wrote: I'm currently using Syba 4-port SATA (I, not II) controllers. They're picky about which card slot they're installed in. Not sure if this is normal, but I'd like to find new controllers that are less touchy. May as well go for Sata II, though I've heard there isn't much actual speed difference. How do you know it isn't just a bad connector on the motherboard? Have you plugged something else into that "slot"? *TimDaniels* Tried them on a couple different machines, Tim. Yes, other cards work in the slots where the Sata cards don't. I have to keep notes on what works in which slot, in case I need to reinstall. It seems ridiculous. Besides, they are older Sata spec. Not sure if Sata II actually does anything, but I'd still like to upgrade if they are not expensive. Any ideas on a good 4-port controller card? Areca. Even better, a PCI Express Areca - though you'd probably need a board change. Odie -- Retrodata www.retrodata.co.uk Globally Local Data Recovery Experts |
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On 6 Jun 2006 14:18:04 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously _Dee wrote: I'm currently using Syba 4-port SATA (I, not II) controllers. They're picky about which card slot they're installed in. Not sure if this is normal, but I'd like to find new controllers that are less touchy. May as well go for Sata II, though I've heard there isn't much actual speed difference. Anyone know of something that works well? The problem with PCI is that the slots often share interrupts with other slots and on-board peripherials. I have for example observed that a gigabit Ethernet card is usually slowed down significantly when sharing the interrupt with on-board USB. Yeah. Pretty retarded design. Still miles above the old ISA bus (active-high interrupt lines? Who was responsible for that?) I would imagine you have such a problem as well, but to the point that functionality is impaired. Functionally dead, actually. And different systems need to have the boards in different slots. I have made good experiences with promise Sata I and II controllers, but your issue may actually be a problem with the mainboard. Sorry, but nothing is simple or easy these days when computer hardware is concerned. If the hardware and drivers are written well, at least there's a chance. It's amazing what gets by these days. The Silicon Image 0680 chipset had a design flaw that caused hangs when drives' Smart data was interrogated. Lots of problems with Everest and other low-level programs traced back to that. The chipset was in everything, including Adaptec's own ATA controller. |
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On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:11:37 +0100, Odie
wrote: Areca Just looked. I'll take your word that those are nice, but they're pricey. For that amount (or less), what is wrong with 3Ware? I've always had good luck with their Raid controllers. Seems like you could run 4 drives in JBod. Not sure if doing that requires alterations to the format that would prevent the drive from being transported to other systems, though. I'd like to stay with standard non-Raid controllers if that is the case. |
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"_Dee" wrote in message
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:11:37 +0100, Odie wrote: Areca Just looked. I'll take your word that those are nice, but they're pricey. And Taiwanese. For that amount (or less), what is wrong with 3Ware? I've always had good luck with their Raid controllers. Seems like you could run 4 drives in JBOD. Which is Raid without the striping (ie "Spanned" or "Concatenated"). Not sure if doing that requires alterations to the format that would prevent the drive from being transported to other systems, though. So yes. I'd like to stay with standard non-Raid controllers if that is the case. |
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Solid 4-port Sata II controller/adapter
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 08:35:46 +0200, "Folkert Rienstra"
wrote: "_Dee" wrote in message For that amount (or less), what is wrong with 3Ware? I've always had good luck with their Raid controllers. Seems like you could run 4 drives in JBOD. Which is Raid without the striping (ie "Spanned" or "Concatenated"). I've heard of two different modes for running 'native formatted' drives from a Raid controller. See below. Not sure if doing that requires alterations to the format that would prevent the drive from being transported to other systems, though. So yes. I've hooked regular-formatted ATA drives up to older gen 3Ware Raid controllers in the past. No reformat necessary. Then transported the drives back to non-Raid Promise and Adaptec controllers with no problems. The 3Ware controller seemed to work just like a normal ATA controller, but with the advantage that I had 4 separate cables, so no master-slave contending for control. If the 3Ware controllers wrote anything to the drive, it was transparent. I was wondering if this could still be the case with newer SATA raid controllers. |
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