I would like to build a NAS around an Asus p2b motherboard, which is equipped with a Pentium II (manual p2b : http://www.manualslib.com/manual/249625/Asus-P2b.html ). This card has an Intel 440BX chipset.
Because obviously has only IDE connectors (PATA), I would use a PCI card that gives me 2 or 4 SATA connectors and use a pair of 1TB or 2TB disks. I know it will not be a super-performance NAS , but it only serves as a file-server, nothing more.
Now, the problem is choosing the right PCI card : I think my motherboard only implements PCI version 2.1 , while the various PCI cards that I find around require at least PCI 2.2 or 2.3
That's why I came to doubt that some cards may not work on this motherboard.
these are the cards I selected:
- Promise FastTrack S150 TX4
- Syba SD -SATA- 4P Serial ATA150 4x Ports RAID Controller Card with Sil3114 chipset
- other card with SIL3114 : http://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Serial-Ada ... PA58QXMMTD
- Syba SATA II 4 x PCI RAID Host Controller Card SY- PCI40010 ( http://www.amazon.com/Syba-SATA-RAID-Co ... roduct_top)
- SYBA SD- SATA2 - 4IR PCI SATA II ( 3.0Gb / s) RAID Controller Card ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6816124008 )
Thanks in advance to all for your answers.


