SATA PCI Card

[pαuℓzurrr.]

I'm thinking to get a SATA PCI card for my pc, so i can use it to connect my dvd drive to get burning working.
Does anyone knows a good/cheap card?
I've be looking at the VIA6214 but i'm not sure if it's supported...
Any help would be highly appreciated :)

[thorazine74]

Make sure the chipset supports AHCI or you'll be struggling with driver support, Jmicron based cards may have better compatibility.

[pαuℓzurrr.]

Thanks for the reply :)
Would you recommend any JMicron chipset?
I believe the JMB363 is supported and has AHCI too.
Still searching on google :)

Edit: JMB363 is PCIe only, and since i only have 1 PCIe which is used by my 8600GT... I need a PCI card.
Edit2: Just ordered a PCI controller with VIA6214 chipset, will update if it works or not...

[pαuℓzurrr.]

Just got the PCI Controller.
I get this information from lspci,

01:09.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 62)
01:09.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 62)
01:09.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 65)
01:09.3 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller [1106:3249] (rev 50)


It has 4 USB ports, a IDE port, eSATA and a SATA port.
However it doesnt find the SATA port, not sure about the IDE & eSATA
I tried to edit the AppleVIAATA kext. it does find it on boot but it doesnt work in osx itself...
Anyone know what to do?
Thanks!

[thorazine74]

Sorry but I'm afraid that is a very bad choice: here (http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/peripherals/serial-ata_raid/vt6421/) it says nothing about the card supporting AHCI (apart from being SATA1 only but that should not be really important being a PCI device) so you'll be having to use AppleVIAATA with it. But the interface on the card seems to be working as "RAID bus controller [0104]" and I think AppleVIAATA only supports pure IDE interfaces so unless the card has a BIOS and you can change its working mode (or find some other kext for it) I'm afraid the card wont work with OS X.

[pαuℓzurrr.]

Thanks for the reply :)
It wasnt that expensive (15 euros) so it doesn't really matter. I do have some USB ports more now and a xbox 360 working sata card in windows ;)

[cipz]

hi..

i'm using SYBA sa3114-4i
dunt know if you can find the product info on syba website,, no longer being there anymore
maybe you can google it

it has 4 internal port,, using sil3114 chipset
i upgraded with latest ide bios
detects fine during boot on my motherboard
use appleviaata to get it working in leopard
but it only detects 2 port only (port 1 & port2)

use it for my 2 sata dvd rom drives with good burning performance
hope this can help