Paul, you will be relieved to know that I braved up and installed the 1205sa card on a windows machine... updated driver which may have been a waste of time and flashed both Base BIOS and SATA_raid BIOS.
Apparently this card has a BIOS that is in 2 parts or maybe each on it own chip. Their are 2 on the card. I didn't hold out much hope but it worked just fine with that done. No need for jumpers ... it just works. Some might think its a waste to go with the 1.5GB of `sata I' but the card is PCI anyway. I'm not sure how much of a bottleneck that is but I suspect that would get in the way before 1.5gb does. This server is on a home lan so not going to get an industrial workout anyway. I'm a happy camper even though I jumped the gun and ordered a Sil3114 off ebay, I'm pretty sure I'll use it sooner or later. You have been very patient and helpful ... I really do appreciate that. Thanks.
