Subject: Re: Cheapo 4 Port S-ATA Controller?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Ball <aball@students.prairiestate.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/02/2007 21:04:12
Hello Felix,

  FK> I'm looking for a somewhat cheapish SATA Controller
    > for my home server (NetBSD 3-Stable). So far the only
    > cheap controllere (less than 100 Euro) I could find
    > where 2 Ports only.

If you mean the type that plugs into a 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI
slot that makes sense.  A couple of modern drives probably
come close to choking an ordinary PCI bus, especially if it
is also being used by other devices. I considered that route
but plan to buy a new mainboard to avoid trying to cram
storage data down the PCI bus.

- Andy Ball