"philo" wrote in message
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On 05/06/2012 05:43 PM, W wrote:
Can someone recommend an eSATA PCI host adapter that has a built in BIOS
that can be configured in a preboot environment to make the card the
boot
device on the system?

Ideally the card should have four eSATA ports and supports multiple SATA
drives on each connection.

You missed the point.

If you cloned your old system to a raid
there will be no reference to the raid signature in boot.ini
as you were previously booting from a simple volume

Another point relative to my trying to investigate other host adapters: my
existing host adapter doesn't behave in a robust way. It has four ports 0
through 3. I have drives on 0 (the new boot device) and 2. When I turn
on the drive on 2, during a bootup the drive on 0 disappears from the BIOS
announcement of attached devices. If I turn off 2, then 0 re-appears.
That isn't the kind of robust and reliable behavior I expect from a host
adapter that is going to be booting my OS.

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W