Freecom Hard Drive Pro 500Gb - eSATA Card Info

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.

joe90@yahoo.com wrote:
> 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.

There's a standard for a reason.

> But, of course, that might be asking too much.

Yep, there's a standard for a reason.

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage joe90@yahoo.com wrote:
> 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.

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