I was given a Fantom 1TB external drive as a present which I can easily use with USB 2.0. The drive also allows connection with SATA so I decided to purchase an addon card from NewEgg.

The card did not work in XP or Ubuntu 8.04 though it was seen on boot by the BIOS. It only worked with XP on the initial install. Updating the drivers had no affect.

I am wondering what to do next. I can get a different card that does not have the Silicon Image chipset 3512. There are one or two that use a VIA chipset or I can get one that uses a different Silicon Image chipset. I am limited as my motherboard only has standard PCI slots.

I do have an empty SATA connection on my AsRock motherboard which I could probably use by hooking up an external port.

Are there any suggestions as to what card I should use or whether I should connect to the motherboard?

Thanks for any suggestions

Doc