There was, at one point, an issue with WD drives (SATA 2) working with some SATA 1 controllers. Took me 2 months and about 100k scalp follicles to get the system up. From: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-2921.html Not exactly Fedora related, but worth a menton here. Well, after trying to get my MSI K8T800 with the VT8237 chip to talk SATA to two new Western Digital WD800JD disks, I found there is a compatibility issue with the WD800JD drives. Seems they want to talk SATA2 and the VT8237 get's confused. It only does SATA150. I ended sending the WD800JD to WDC and they sent me 2 new WD1200 sata drives that did work. Now, if only I could get hardware RAID to work with FC4T1. -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Florin Iucha Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:10 PM To: Samir M. Nassar Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] SATA PCI card On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:58:47AM -0500, Samir M. Nassar wrote: > Looking for SATA hard drives it seems that I get more bang for my buck by > getting SATA 2 drives. If I remember correctly SATA 2 drives work just fine > on SATA 1 controllers. Correct. > However, if I am getting SATA2 drives I might as well > get SATA2 controllers. Since you need an add-on board, I presume you want to use it in an older machine in which case you will have other bottlenecks and SATA 1 vs. SATA 2 won't make any difference to you. Obviously get the SATA 2 disks so you can reuse them later. > Does support for SATA2 lessen in 2.6 vanilla kernels? Not necessarily as the hardware is quite similar from the driver side. It depends on the vendor and hardware revision. Intel seems to have the best support, but SIIG is the cheapest and has wide availability on add-on boards (and as a second controller on many motherboards). florin -- There was a typo, but on the wrong page. -- Vipin Kumar