Advice sought on SATA controllers

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, August 16, 2010 07:49 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 13 August 2010 17:04, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>> Liam Proven wrote:
>>> I want to replace the EIDE drives in one of my servers - 4 * 40GB, so
>>> not exactly high-end these days - with a set of 4 * 300MB SATA drives
>>> a mate has given me. Snag is, the server is EIDE and SCSI only and it
>>> only has 64-bit PCI-X slots, no ordinary 32-bit PCI slots.
>>>
>>> Note, PCI-X *not* PCI-E!
>>>
>>> So I want a cheap&  cheerful at-least-4-port SATA controller that
>>> works well with Ubuntu Server. No RAID functionality, I was going to
>>> do that in software.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions from the panel?
>>>
>>
>> Supermicro's 8 port SATA card
>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm
>
> Thanks! I shall go looking.
>

If you want cheaper, try looking for a PCI-X si3124 controller (most 
likely with a fake raid bios)