Socket A MB w/ support for SATA?

[Homerboy]

ok maybe this is the allergy medicine talking again (as it has a few times today already), but why can't I find a Socket A motherboard that has support for SATA? and why can't I find a PCI card that is an addon for (multipe) SATA devices?

I have a old Barton machine running as my home server and want to add a few SATA HDDs to it....

 

[SynthDude2001]

Abit NF7-S 2.0, I ran one for a little over two years and it has two Serial ATA ports. There are probably others, but that's the one that I've used. To be honest I'm not sure if they still produce the board, but if nothing else you should always be able to find a used one relatively cheaply (I finally got around to selling mine a few weeks ago in the FS/T forums here).

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Abit NF7-S 2.0, I ran one for a little over two years and it has two Serial ATA ports. There are probably others, but that's the one that I've used. To be honest I'm not sure if they still produce the board, but if nothing else you should always be able to find a used one relatively cheaply (I finally got around to selling mine a few weeks ago in the FS/T forums here).

yeah I guess I know they MADE them (hell I had the same NF7-S). harder today to find for sale though new....

I just snagged a 2 port PCI card. Good enough and cheaper 🙂

 

[FSH42NA]

I recently had to hunt down a skt A mobo for my cheap ass cousin and used the ASROCK KT400A mobo: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=245003

It's a basic mobo that supports SATA and was easy to set up. I didn't use a SATA drive though so I can't comment on how good that would be. Overclocking is a bit limited. Vdimm adjustments consist of "auto, low, high" whatever that means.

ZZF also had an MSI NF2 mobo.

Hope this helps

 

[tcsenter]

...why can't I find a Socket A motherboard that has support for SATA?

Not looking hard enough? In addition to the Asrock board mentioned...

EPOX EP-8KRAIPRO Via Apollo KT880

EP-8RDA3IPRO nForce2 Ultra 400R

MSI K7N2 Delta2-LSR nForce2 Ultra 400

EPoX EP-8KMM3I-X VIA KM400

I have a old Barton machine running as my home server and want to add a few SATA HDDs to it...

Unless you need extra storage devices, you'd be better to use the integrated IDE/ATA controllers rather than to hang high performance hard drives off the PCI bus.