Hi, is the Intel SE440BX2 Motherboard PCI 2.2 compliant?
I looked online, but could not find the answer.
I want to install a SATA PCI Controller card, but the card's manual says that the PCI slot must be revision 2.2 or higher.
Thanks.
What chipset does the SATA card use ?
PCI 2.1
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/s … mpatibility.htm
http://hw-museum.cz/mb/49/intel-se440bx-2
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? … n&ct=clnk&gl=ca
wrote:What chipset does the SATA card use ? […]
What chipset does the SATA card use ?
PCI 2.1
https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/s … mpatibility.htm
http://hw-museum.cz/mb/49/intel-se440bx-2
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? … n&ct=clnk&gl=ca
Not sure. It's the Promise Sata 150 TX2plus.
As you said, it appears that the SE440BX2 is PCI 2.1 compliant, which means that the Promise SATA 150 TX2plus will not work for me.
Do you know if there are any PCI SATA controller cards that are compatible with PCI 2.1? Thanks.
According to this thread, you should be fine with that controller in a PCI 2.1 board .
http://forums.storagereview.com/index.php?/to … 21-good-enough/
Otherwise, Silicon Image SIL3112/SIL3512 based cards work just fine in a PCI 2.1 440BX board .
I have used a Promise SATA150 TX2 on 440BX. Even a 486 once.
If you have problems, trying removing other PCI cards and see if it works. PCI can be quite picky about card order.
Though frankly I prefer to not add extra PCI cards. It tends to just make the system less stable. More flaky 3rd party VXDs and PCI being touchy with more cards. I like those PATA to SATA adapters that connect to the drive.
wrote:I have used a Promise SATA150 TX2 on 440BX. Even a 486 once.
If you have problems, trying removing other PCI cards and see if it works. PCI can be quite picky about card order.
Though frankly I prefer to not add extra PCI cards. It tends to just make the system less stable. More flaky 3rd party VXDs and PCI being touchy with more cards. I like those PATA to SATA adapters that connect to the drive.
I was thinking about one of those adapters, but I have heard that they only run in PIO mode, which I believe is slower than DMA 33mb/s, right? If I use the Promise controller card, I should get the full 133mb/s provided by the PCI bus, right? Thanks.
wrote:I was thinking about one of those adapters, but I have heard that they only run in PIO mode, which I believe is slower than DMA 33mb/s, right? If I use the Promise controller card, I should get the full 133mb/s provided by the PCI bus, right? Thanks.
No the adapter should run the drive at SATA 1.5gb/s and it will negotiate what the motherboard supports, in the 440BX's case UDMA 33. UDMA 33 is definitely a bottleneck but it's not that big of a deal. I've seen these adapters run UDMA 133 on newer chipsets and move ~95MB/s, which is about the maximum you can get from UDMA 133.
I have both the type that connect to the drive and the the type that connect to the motherboard. The type that connect to the drive is probably the safest bet.
I suggest looking for ones that are said to work with the old XBox. The old XBox is picky about these adapters and so I think this is a pretty good way to avoid the bad ones.
https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=612
