Summary: I have several SATA HDD's plugged into my motherboard via two SATA controller cards. 1. Promise SATA150 TX series 2. Promise SATA300 TX4 The elder c...
Summary: First of all, reasonably priced PCI controller cards won't support SATA II speeds. IMO this is NOT a deal breaker. You will not notice the differenc...
Summary: From what I have used, I see no reason in having a SATA RAID controller unless you intend on having a large amount of drives (ie - more than your onbo...
Summary: Do you have an open PCI slot? First of all there are two types of SATA. SATA I (150MB/sec) & SATA II (300MB/sec). Add in PCI cards for SATA I are ...
Summary: I recently built a new pc, however I am using my hard drive from my old computer. My new motherboard is sata interface but my hard drive is pata ide i...
Summary: Your drive must be IDE, so it will not work with a sata card. It `would' work with an IDE controller card. But with either one it would only improve t...
Summary: Please someone help me... I have a Compaq Smart 2DH Array Controller. My problem is... The controller installs fine and seems to function. The confi...
Summary: First of all I have looked at the manual for your MBoard. You probably should hae bought another SATA harddrive instead of the 20GB drive you bought....
Summary: I am trying to help someone in the Win2000 forum overcome the 48bit LBA limit in thier BIOS. http://computing.net/windows2000/ww... They will need to...
Summary: "I plugged in the sata cable to the black sata 1 slot and windows will not finish booting. It is stuck on the startup window." What do you mean by the...
Summary: Does anyone have a definitive procedure for installing an IDE/ATA controller card on a computer with Windows 2000? I'm trying to install one on my HP ...
Summary: i am looking to buy an IDE/ATA controller card for my new hard drive and i was wondering: do all of them come with onboard bios so i could overcome m...
Summary: To connect SATA drives to your motherboard you need SATA connectors on it. They don't fit to the old ATA connectors as the SATA connectors are a lo...
Summary: More ideas... Without the CD go into BIOS to enable your SATA drive. Make sure that the connector that you enable in the BIOS is the same connector nu...
Summary: Thanks. Seagate only has new drives, I don't believe they sell just controllers. My controller card is dead, and I need important info on my drive. I...
Summary: I am about to install ULTRA ATA PCI. Controller Card. My motherboard controller went south. I have tried two known good Hard Drives and no results. ...
Summary: I installed a SIIG SATA controller card, and attatched a new SATA drive to it. Well, I don't see the drive anywhere in the Computer Management/Local s...
Summary: If you are using the new hard drive as the main boot device, than you need a controler card that can act as the primary boot device. If you don't use...
Summary: I have been trying to put an 80 GB Hard drive in my computer. My motherboard is Tyan, I have the most up to date version of the BIOS and it will only...
Summary: Hi, How do controller cards work? Seems I lost my secondary IDE controller and it would appear that in order to run my CDRW and DVD drives I need a co...
Summary: Thanks for the info Michael. The MB is a Foxconn 6150K8MD-8ERSH. The nvidia sata controllers support RAID 0,1, 0+1, and 5 with 4 SATA ports so I ass...
Summary: I am attempting to build some file servers. I've got a lot of herwise useless parts laying around. For example, 20+ 3GB HDD's, and 20+ Whole PC's(K6 2...
Summary: This is ina addition to my post below: http://www.computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/30272.html However this question is asking, has anyone had any...