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DirFX - Syba Combo IDE(1)/SATA(2) PCI Card SY-VIA-150

List Price: $11.70
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Manufacturer: Syba

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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Syba
EAN: 0810154012374
Label: Syba
Manufacturer: Syba
Model: SY-VIA-150
Publisher: Syba
Studio: Syba

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Editorial Reviews:

Combo IDE(1)/SATA(2) PCI Card VIA VT6421. 2x SATA and 1x IDE ports. None RAID. Thisl Serial-ATA (SATA) controller card is designed for adding 2 SATA hard drive and 2 IDE hard drive. Chipset: VIA VT6421A. 2/1/0, and PIO mode 4/3/2/1/0. Supports PCI Plug and Play. PCI interrupt sharing and coexists with main board IDE controller. Supports ATA 133 high performance hard disk drives. Supports IDE bus master operation. Supports Ultra DMA mode 6/5/4/3/2/1/0, DMA mode. Supports hard disk drive larger than 137 GB (48-bits LBA). Supports 2 SATA hard disk drives. Supports up to 2 internal SATA hard drives

Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:

Summary: A key fact is missing from this item's description
Comment: I bought this in order to replace the older IDE drive on one of my PC's but noticed something odd when I tried to use it. Specifically, I COULD get an SATA drive to function just fine with this card as a second drive but I COULD NOT boot to that drive. Looking around a bit, I managed to find documentation on the manufacturer (IOcrest) web site that reads, "Can not boot from this card. There is no BIOS on card." In fact, it's the very first bullet item in the list of specs so apparently even the manufacturer thinks that's a pretty important fact. I've submitted a request to Amazon to update the description for this product so hopefully the omission will be corrected soon.

The bottom line is this: if you want to buy this card to use an SATA drive (or two) IN ADDITION TO the IDE drive(s) you already have then this card will work fine. However, if you intended to use this to REPLACE the IDE drives you have with SATA drives then you need to look elsewhere. As of this writing there is at least one alternative available for about the same price that does include BIOS (i.e., that will allow you to boot / completely replace IDE with SATA). Search for "Rosewill RC-215 VIA PCI SATA 1.5G" and you'll find it.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Works Perfectly!
Comment: I bought this card to modify the firmware on my Xbox 360 (BENQ Drive). I plugged the card into my Windows XP machine, DID NOT INSTALL THE DRIVERS, and easily flashed my Xbox 360 drive. The card works very well. It does everything I wanted it to do.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Does what it says
Comment: I bought this card in conjunction with IDE and mobile SATA racks so that I could have quick access to IDE and SATA drives. If you want this card to boot an older non-SATA motherboard to SATA drives, then this is not what you need. I was looking for a card to allow me access to SATA and IDE drives with an older non-SATA motherboard. It is perfect for this and works well. The driver installation is a bit tricky, though.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Windows blue-screens and SATA hard drive was corrupted
Comment: Windows XP system blue-screens when this card is installed, and SATA 1.5TB hard drive contents were corrupted after attaching to this controller (drive worked fine when was attached to motherboard SATA controller). Perhaps it's a driver issue and not a hardware problem (I used the VIA driver on the supplied CD), but frankly it's not worth the hassle. I didn't mind that the card wasn't bootable, since I was planning to use it as a secondary controller.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Not worked for me. I could install the hard drive sata
Comment: I installed this card in my desktop but It never worked with the hard drive sata.

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