On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > 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.
Great news! As far as 1.5 vs 3.0, the drive cannot physically get anywhere near that fast so it probably won't make any difference. I had a 320GB drive that came with the 1.5 mode jumpered from the factory, and didn't even realize it for about six months. Once I noticed and changed it, there was absolutely no speed difference. I just got the satisfaction of seeing "3.0" in dmesg instead of "1.5". :)
