Does this controller support booting drives from it? I have an older 2 port controller that has a boot rom on board and supports booting a drive
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I'm not sure know the answer (or fully understand what you're trying to accomplish) but I can't see why not. If the controller card is recognized in the BIOS, and the drives attached to the controller are recognized by the controller, then using the controller BIOS you can configure the drive array (RAID, JBOD, etc) and then set the boot order. Of course, using a controller card you will need to hit F6 to install the controller card drivers in order to load windows onto it.
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Yes. I had an HP desktop on which the SATA ports stopped working. I installed this card and was able to boot from it. I did a fresh install of WIndwos 7 and it worked great.
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Just got mine today. BCD 8 - sorry. Had to take the plunge. I will let you know whether it works anyway. The incompatibility is apparently only with certain USB controllers.
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Well..the card is capable but I think your real-world speeds are going to be limited by your motherboard/processor architecture. Bought this controller to replace a SATA I on an old Xeon-based machine that I use for a file server. Had replaced a couple of Seagate drives on my JBOD array with some shiny new WD Blues, and the old SATA I controller couldn't handle the new drives. This one works like a champ. Here's what I get for speed: $ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdb|grep -i speed * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Gen3 signaling speed (6.0Gb/s) $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 956 MB in 2.00 seconds = 478.08 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 332 MB in 3.01 seconds = 110.19 MB/sec $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/shared/output.img bs=8k count=256k 262144+0 records in 262144+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 38.9774 s, 55.1 MB/s
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It's my understanding you can dual boot with any board. I've done Ubuntu/Windows dual boots on pretty much every PC I've owned. I think dual booting is performed by software installed on your hard drive, not anything specific to particular boards, but I am not an expert. If you have an AMD video card or use a wireless network adapter, you might want to look into whether or not they have driver support under SteamOS. You could always just give it a shot and see what happens. Make sure you back up all your data and good luck!
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Yes it will boot to it. Just remember to set it as your boot drive in bios. You can also select it at boot up. Some motherboards it's the F12 key to choose which drive to boot from.
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I believe it's only 2.0, at least with the version I purchased. There very possibly may be a newer version out. I put it in my Dell desktop to replace a burned out USB controller on the main board and it's worked flawlessly ever since.
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Plugs right into your SATA port or USB. Controller is contained in the unit.
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Impossible with this card as it does not actually have a SATA controller on it, just a pass-through port for the eSata port on the outside. You cannot boot from USB disks on this controller either unless your motherboard has that capability.
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Odd. i got my own cause it wasn't suppose to need a disk. however I found out that does need a profiler of some sort. i really prefer the microsoft x-box controller since it's easier to setup but i got this cause i wanted something that should work under linux
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Sorry, I never tried booting from it. It may depend on whether or not your BIOS sees it when it boots. I highly doubt you can do anything with this card before the OS loads.
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No. It works perfectly with all emulators. And pc games when use in xinput (recognized as one xbox contoller). It also supports multiple controllers when it is used Dinput
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It wasn't for me. I have a regular BIOS system (not the UEFI) so I was not able to use any drives connected to it to boot from. But it does work well for secondary drives.
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Yes. I am running my OS on this drive. I had to switch to legacy boot mode to get it to work.
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Searching on the web I couldnt find any reference for this compatibility, yet, you must try searching on users guide because this controller seems to be very flexible about compat.Luck
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I use the SD-PEX40049 controller (chipset ASM1062) with two Addonics HDD enclosures, one on each port. Each enclosure has 4 drives and a Sil3132 based port multiplier. Works great for me.NB: I've had problems with a different controller which uses the Marvell 88SE9128 chipset. So YMMV depending on which chipset you have.
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I use that Adapter mainly for PS2 controllers in Windows 7. It might help you, but I would first try Motion in Joy and/or SCP DS3