On May 8, 9:30*pm, "W" wrote:
"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
Maybe this, then?

Newegg.ca - VANTEC 2-Port SATA II-150 PCI Host Card Model UGT-ST200
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16815102102

You can find 100 such cards on every retail web site. * The point of my
question was to get recommendations for a specific card that someone had
experience with, specifically does the card have a BIOS configuration UI
that lives in the preboot environment so that I could explicitly enable the
card as a boot device.

I only know for sure that the PCIe eSATA card that I pointed to first
does have its own BIOS, since I use that card. I don't know about the
second one, though.

According to one of the entries in that card's comments, they said
that they had to update the card's BIOS to get it to work with their
system, so that might indicate it's got some kind of a BIOS of its
own. But the commenter might actually be talking mistakenly about the
system BIOS rather than the card BIOS, hard to say.

It might be best to look for a PCI-SATA RAID card, as those would be
guaranteed to have their own BIOS. Something like this (it's much more
expensive than the previous one):

Newegg.ca - HighPoint RocketRaid1522A PCI SATA External Controller
Card
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16816115035

It seems the world is filled with $25 eSATA cards that have minimal software
and minimal support. * I would not mind spending $100 for something that is
top notch, extremely robust, and well supported in software and by email.

--
W

Yousuf Khan