Currently in my home network i have an OLD Dell box (I believe 66Mhz 486) running RH9 (Shrike). I use this as my back up box and in it's current setup it works great, except it's using the onboard disk controller which I think is only 33 speed. So, to hopefully improve the speed, as well as put in a disk large enough to hold everything, I'm looking at putting in a SATA setup.

I've been looking around in newegg and found several cards that will work. Because of the age of the box I know I want one that operates at 33Mhz PCI and (obviously) works with linux. Surprisingly there are still quite a few avalible that meet the requirements, So If anyone would like to look through whats avalible and make any recommendations, I'd be very greatful. Also if you could suggest a disk manufacturer to use with the card, that would be awesome.

P.S. I wil NOT be RAIDing this, single drive only.

Here's what I have found on newegg.com. It shows some 64bit cards too, which (again obviously) won't work: http://www.newegg.com/app/Viewproduc...r=SATA%20linux

tenraek; check those devices at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/index.html
for compatibility with linux. then buy if they are.

All 32-bit PCI cards uses 33 MHz. The spec ATA33, ATA66, ATA100, and ATA133 has nothing to deal with the PCI bus clock. The ATA spec just means how much data it can transfer in one second although drives rarely go at the rated speed. The PCI bus can transfer about 133 megabytes per second. I suggest Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 and any Western Digital or IBM/Hitachi hard drives. Highpoint has open source modules (drivers) for their controllers, so you can use kernel version 2.4.x to 2.6.x. Maxtor and Seagate hard drives uses more CPU resources than Western Digital and IBM/Hitachi hard drives.

Electro; Thanks for those tips. will & can use later, so i hardcopied them.
place u in #1 SM status.