I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 sata and Plextor 716SA drive. When I got them, I got a Promise PCI card (for the NCQ) that has caused nothing but problems -- my computer now blue screens everytime I disconnect a firewire or usb external drive, my Plextor drive only works in the half-speed PIO mode. So I'm going to ditch the PCI card and just get a new motherboard with onboard sata.
I'd love get a 939 board w/ a new CPU and PCIe graphics card-- but that's way too much to spend right now, so I really need a Socket A board that will support my sata hard disk and plextor drive, but I'm not sure which Socket A boards have atapi sata. Any suggestions?
Other things that would be great:
- firewire (I have a PCI card for that at the moment)
- spdif coax digital 5.1 output (I already have all the cables in place for this)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I'd love get a 939 board w/ a new CPU and PCIe graphics card-- but that's way too much to spend right now, so I really need a Socket A board that will support my sata hard disk and plextor drive, but I'm not sure which Socket A boards have atapi sata. Any suggestions?
Other things that would be great:
- firewire (I have a PCI card for that at the moment)
- spdif coax digital 5.1 output (I already have all the cables in place for this)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!