Sata/sata2 on a1?

Hi,i'm wondering on replacing my old hd's. Looking at some sata drives. Does these work on the a1? If so which hd controllers do work?

@Antique

SATA-Cards based on the sii3112, sii3114 and sii3512 chips should work.

Have a look at the OS4 docs
- sii3112ide_dev.doc
- sii3114ide_dev.doc
- sii3512ide_dev.doc
for more infos.

They all works fine

I used it on my micro

@Antique

I'm using a 3512 based card here but beware, there are limitations atm...

you CAN NOT boot from a 3512 ( or 3114 card iirc ).
The last digit tells you how many ports you get... so if you need loads of small drives (better for backing up) get a 3114.

SATA is best used in addition to ide not as a replacement.

Personally I can not boot properly or use the system reliably with a sata dvdrw connected. I've tried samsung and nec models, people have been informed and things are hopefully being looked at.

For what it's worth my A1XE has a Lite-On DVDRW drive that works just fine. I actually have an identical drive in my OS4 A4000 too,
works very well!

@Spirantho

Quote:Is that sata, or ide?

@Swoop

That's SATA. They're identical drives... ?16 on eBay job, but so far all my Lite-On drives have been very good.

It's connected to the A4000's internal IDE via a ?0.99 IDE->SATA converter, but I'm going to attach it to the Deneb soon, for a bit more speed.

4.7GB packet-writing removable storage is nice - and just worked first time under OS4 on both machines.