[svlug] SATA PCI controller, Mirroring solution

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:16:19 -0500, RS wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Paul Reiber <reiber at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> A friend's looking to purchase a SATA PCI controller and drives.
>>
>> He's runnung Ubuntu 7.1 and would like to use it with internal
>> and external disks.  His impression is that most controllers
>> should be able to do that.
> 
> 
> not sure what you mean? most external disks are either USB or
> firewire...make sure that the controller is SATA II compliant

AFAIK, there is no such thing as a SATA-II PCI card. Plain PCI just isn't
fast enough. All SATA-II drives I've seen will fall back to SATA-I, anyway.