On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:55:20PM -0600, Ken Teh wrote:
> Yes, I have someone who wants to do the same.  Maybe they're related. 
> *sigh*.  So, if any of you are budding Rumpelstilskins, speak up!  :)
> 
> Ken

Hi, Ken.  We bought and installed the following, 4-port, PCI, eSATA card
from Granite Digital:

http://www.granitedigital.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=267

It uses the SI 3114 chipset.  It seems to work without problems (so far)
and is about twice as fast as USB (non-scientific measurement).  It
didn't require any driver installation.

					- Mike
> 
> Michael Hannon wrote:
> >Greetings.  One of the guys here is trying to spin straw into gold: he's
> >got a PC with a standard PCI expansion bus (i.e., NOT PCI-X or PCIe),
> >and he'd like to hook up an eSATA drive to the computer.
> >
> >It appears that most of the linux support for eSATA devices assume
> >you've got a newer bus.
> >
> >If you can recommend an eSATA card that would work with a PCI bus under
> >SL, I'd appreciate it.

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