- Freecom Hard Drive Pro 500Gb - eSATA Card Info
- Posted by joe90@yahoo.com on December 28th, 2007
Tried two cards with this external USB 2.0/eSATA hard disk drive -
both from:
www.misco.co.uk
1. Lacie 2x port PCI 150 card costing about 20 UKP
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=10807
2. Adaptec 2x port 1225SA PCI-EXPRESS 300 card costing about 43 UKP
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/product...ry/AAR-1225SA/
The drive didn't work with the Lacie card but works fine with the
Adaptec one. Apparently a rare case of 'you gets what you pay for'.
I am posting this to save somebody else all the hassle and mileage
I've had recently. How I wish Freecom would post on their site the
cards that have been tested and work with their external eSATA drives.
Would save everyone a lot of bother.
But, of course, that might be asking too much.
- Posted by Rod Speed on December 29th, 2007
joe90@yahoo.com wrote:
There's a standard for a reason.
Yep, there's a standard for a reason.
- Posted by Arno Wagner on December 29th, 2007
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage joe90@yahoo.com wrote:
Since eSATA should only put the disk's signals through, are you
sure the non-working card works at all? I would guess this
is not an issue on the LaChie side at all.
Arno
- Posted by FrankFL on December 31st, 2007
<joe90@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:hp2bn3l7kq6n7vsk9avg54ef6a0dsjkdhh@4ax.com...
There is a jumper on some SATA drives that control the 150 or 300
interface.
Example:
http://www.seagate.com/images/suppor...sata_block.gif
