SYBA SD-VIA-1A2S PCI SATA / IDE Combo Controller Card

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none would not perform at all and one particular of the sata ports came apart after tiny use, remain away remain away

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Allows me to use my SATA challenging drives when my motherboard has to connection for them. Worked suitable out of the box, just plugged in into my computer and plugged my difficult drive into it and it started working. Haven't identified any but. I'm not sure how rapidly it is compared to other merchandise, or connecting drives directly to the motherboard, but it's quick adequate for me.

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Affordable Restricted documentationNo help internet siteDOA

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Looks like a nice flexible remedy to add SATA to a non SATA motherboard. Handles IDE and two SATA drives. Caused my Windows 2000 machine to crash repeatedly and to hang on startup. Even though I was formatting the SATA drive, easy actions such as copying a filename from an IDE drive to the clipboard, or xcopying files from 1 IDE drive to one more caused it to crash. After a of these windows would not reboot, hanging on the logo. I had to image it with DOS ghost to get the data that I needed out of it. Ghost mentioned that some Windows cache needed flush but I couldn't bring it up any safe mode or restore level to fix it. All these issues are regular actions that people today do although they're formatting a drive and getting ready to copy some data and creating scripts, and so on.It also puts up scary RAID messages at boot time for Linux users and looks very straightforward to get into BIOS settings accidentally. Excellent thought, but it certain could use yet another pass. I'm probably going to RMA it. I don't have days and days to debug their card.

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Fantastic price tag and effortless install. It just works! None Making use of it to mirror two x 750GB SATA in RAID 1 for my OpenFiler. Plugged it in, installed OpenFiler, and it discovered each drives no challenge. Employed the software RAID built into OpenFiler to mirror the information. Shows up as "RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller" to the OpenFiler OS. As OpenFiler is built on rPath Linux you could assume this card would work in most Linux boxes.

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Hassle-free of charge install on old motherboard operating 32-bit Ubuntu ten.04. None. Instantly recognized by 32-bit Ubuntu ten.04. No need to have to install any driver. Motherboard recognizes the card and correctly passes control to the card through boot.I've only used the card to connect one SATA drive so I haven't tried IDE or raid and can't speak to how nicely it handles them.

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Low-cost, otherwise I can't genuinely say because I haven't identified a way to get it to function with Linux. (Ubuntu 9.10, Arch, Mint 9 so far) The Linux assistance on this card is horrid, even trying to uncover drivers will take forever, if your lucky to be able to sort by means of all the various files on the so known as drivers disc, you may possibly find a couple of files named "Linux" or "Ubuntu x.xx" but you definitely have no clue what is for what, and the directions appear to be minimal to none. For the money I would say if you gonna try to use this with Linux, your considerably better off finding a card better supported, even if it is a bit additional costly its properly worth not wasting countless hours attempting to figure out what is what, and looking for anything for drivers Linux wise on this. The organization Internet internet site takes some work to discover this model card for drivers, that don't appear to exist. I will most most likely end up just buying a new card as I don't really feel like wasting additional hours attempting to discover a way to use this card on Linux. So if you use Linux, do your self a favor, don't buy this card, you will regret it. As I can\'t say if it works with Windows or not I will give it 2 eggs, which is getting generous getting the Linux assistance is none existent. Manufacturer Response:Dear Consumer, Thank you for buying our Syba items. We are sorry to hear that the product has cease functioning as it need to be. Please refer to our ratings for this item. They are excellent ratings for this item. Also here is the link for the driver: http://sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid. I would like to point out that we can also issue RMA returns. We generally attempt to supply the most reliable items to our customers and all products come with at least 3-year warranty. So please don't hesitate to contact us at support@sybausa.com for replacement or question. Regards, Syba Consumer Service KN 083310

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My old Dell P4 boots from a single SATA-150 drive connected to this card and the driver installation was flawless. No conflicts so far. Cant get rid of that F1 halt / prompt through power-on or restart, so remote restart is out of the question. See other thoughts. I referred to as up their tech support and they had been fairly straightforward and useful - this card does not have an selection to flash its BIOS to disable that warning; other cards (SiL chipsets) do. The warning will only go away if a SATA RAID array is developed. I also was not able to get into the card's BIOS with the <tab> key apparently mainly because the MBs BIOS would not allow it. I eventually got into it by repeatedly hitting the tab important just as the Dell Splash screen starts to show up. When I got into the card's BIOS, there still wasn't an option to disable that prompt.

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Works nicely and allows me access to a 500 Gig SATA drive on a motherboard with no SATA connections Difficult a bit of trouble with the drivers at initially and windows recognizing the device. Had to reinstall the drivers but because then has worked well. Have not tried the second SATA connection or the IDE connection.

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None Card would lock up the system any time I connected more than 1 Sata drive. XP would not recognize it nor install any drivers. I just bought four new hard drives and spent hours trying to troubleshoot this junk card. I've been in IT for 25 years and it amazes me the Chinese junk that is on the market place.

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I'm making use of this purely as a SATA controller, ignoring the RAID functionality, due to the fact the controller on my older Asus A7V600-X motherboard can't manage newer 3Gb/s SATA drives. This card works excellent below Win XP. Consists of a printed manual (a rarity these days!) and the manual has a link to a direct download web site for current drivers, which is a nice touch. Doesn't get along with the Via mixture IDE/SATA controller built in to my motherboard, so I had to install a second IDE controller card so I could keep the 3 IDE drives I already had whilst disabling the controller on the motherboard. Symptom: XP locks up challenging for the duration of boot.The included driver CD has drivers for seemingly hundreds of controllers, not just this 1. And even for this one, there seem to be 3 different versions on the CD. It's a mite confusing.

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Not much. Need to have been straightforward... I guess that wasn't probable. I bought the card to replace a dead IDE controller on a mobo. Was hoping to install the card, swap the HD and CDROM on the dead controller to it and be great to go. Nope. It has to install itself as a raid controller, and requires device drivers from the cdrom on the poor controller to install and run (if the controller the cdrom is on was working, then I wouldn't need to have the new card... correct??). I didn't purchase it as a raid controller - I bought it as a uncomplicated IDE controller. Some intelligence would have allowed the controller to come up at boot time; and if the user wanted to use it as a raid controller, let them install the drivers then. Nope. I'll either now, come across an additional basic IDE controller (more wasted $'s and time); or simply give up on the pc and build up a new box and go to W7. In the mean time I limp along with out the archive/backups HD, and with out a cdrom. :-(

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This card is low cost and works great. The individual a few comments below that has supposedly "been" in IT for 25 years must look for alternate employment. Worked out of the box. Took about 30 seconds to install driver for XP. None.

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Very good card, recognized 1st attempt by Vista which installed proper drivers immediately. Ran 1 IDE drive and one SATA drive at identical time without error or difficulty of any type. Not supported as boot drive controller by IDE mbd which would not boot by way of PCI bus. Retail package ought to contain drivers for purpose of using card as boot drive controller on PCI bus.

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Offers two SATA ports to make an old method accept a SATA drive. Bonus IDE port as effectively. SATA I speed. Works fine for a low-crucial NAS construct, but if SATA 2 performance is needed, this is not the way to go. I have a frankensteinish P3-866 that has a TDP of 26W sitting behind the couch that is running 5 hand-me down harddrives. This card installed with out a hitch. The personal computer wakes up at 10pm each and every night to accept backup requests and then shuts down at 12am. The only reason I'm keeping it is the comparatively low TDP. Now that Atom motherboards are becoming obtainable with a TDP as low as 4W, it is becoming pointless to invest more money for the old P3. I must have saved the money getting this card to fund for an Atom motherboard with onboard SATA-two ports. But, cest la vie, as they say.

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Affordable, straightforward to setup Only SATA 1.five I utilized two for some SATA HD's I had lying around to put into my 2k3 Server for storage. I had no difficulties installing the extra drives. I haven't tried running an OS off of them, and I haven't run raid off of them. If I were going to run raid, I would get a genuine raid card.

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This controller combo card works excellent and the price is slamming! I don't fully grasp the couple of people that had problems mainly because it works fantastic + it was incredibly straightforward to setup! None! BIOSTAR TPower N750 AM2+, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+, ZALMAN CNPS9700 LED 110mm HT, G.SKILL 8GB DDR2 1066, LG GH22LP20-BK , SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 750GB (x3), Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum, MSI Radeon HD 4850 R4850-512MB, Dell SP2208WFP 22” Widescreen, Apevia/Aspire Aluminum Black멀watt PS, SuperFlower Aluminum Silver/Midtower Case wǙ Transparent Widows & 12” Blue Cold Cathode tube PC Light, Vista Property Premium SP1 64-bit...

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Added some significantly necessary sata ports to my matx motherboard, works in windows xp professional x64/ server 2003, has raid functions and it boots windows just like the motherboards raid function none that I'm aware of This is a fairly cheap alternative to getting to replace out a matx motherboard to get much more sata ports. Working pretty good for me!

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Cheap. VIA chipset appears to have extremely poor Linux support. Tried in numerous machines with multiple OSs (Ubuntu 9.04, 9.ten, Fedora 12, OpenSUSE 11.2) all with no luck. Drives show up, but any heavy disk activity produces DRDY (Device Ready) errors from the kernel. Perhaps it works with Windows, but didn't test. That would be its only redeeming high quality. Purchase a card with a Silicon Image chipset which is superior supported.