SATA PCI Card

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...

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 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

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

Sorry but I'm afraid that is a very bad choice: here (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.

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