Syba Combo IDE PCI Card SY-VIA-150
April 26, 2010Product Description
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. Supp…
Bought this card to use a 750g SATA drive and my Asus MB only had IDE connections. It worked right away as a secondary drive as windows picked it up and installed the driver.
Card could not be used to boot up the computer no matter what I tried, my bios had no provision for that. This disappointed me since it was the reason I bought this.
If you need to use as a boot device do not buy this, go buy the IDE to SATA conversion kit and use the motherboard built in IDE. This is only good to add extra drives after you already have four installed.
Rating: 2 / 5
I installed this card in my desktop but It never worked with the hard drive sata.
Rating: 2 / 5
needed sata/raid control to enable installation of sony bluray
rom drive in an old computer with windows xp…
drive and raid …no problem. has no effect on other cards, i.e. hd2600pro ati
dual hdcp output.
the card was a bargin at amazon.com
Rating: 4 / 5
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.
Rating: 1 / 5
Plugged it right in, works well with vista and windows 7 64 bit. Have not tried it with XP but I’m sure it’s fine!
Rating: 5 / 5