Rosewill RC-215 VIA PCI SATA 1.5G x2 / ATA 133 (IDE) x1 Controller Card
Sold by Newegg
Because this item is priced lower than the suggested manufacturer’s advertised price, pricing for this item can be shown by proceeding through the checkout process if the product is available.
Reviews(150)
Rosewill Brand <- Never let me down
Sale Item
Free Shipping
Easy mechanical install
Sub Par Documentation and it matters. Unless I lived up to my somewhat high professed skill level I might have been screaming by now.
Unlike most guys I wanted this card for it's IDE slot. I have a couple IDE drives that are still good.
I was trying to install XP on an IDE HD connected to the PCI card. My problem was getting the drivers for the card recognized during the install. The system does not have floppy so I needed to integrate the drivers to the install disc. I used nLite to do this. The controller card has a VIA chip on it made by Rosewill. The Rosewill drivers on the supplied disc and downloaded from their site are very difficult to understand regarding just what the HECK driver do I want....too many options and the supplied directions did not do the task. All attempts failed with the Rosewill drivers. I went to VIA, downloaded their drivers did the integration and all was good.
Too bad this item looks to be discontinued because I recommend it if you have a somewhat high sill level and patience
Cheap
Unrecoverable BSOD during OS boot in Win7-64 if when AHCI SATA mode selected in BIOS. VIA chipset driver VSMRAID.SYS is named problem driver. Will work in IDE SATA mode (slower) on same OS.
It would be REALLY NICE if compatibility information on these cards would be more complete. I use AHCI SATA mode on my Gigabyte Z68 board for improved hard drive speed. I'm not going to sacrifice this speed advantage just to facilitate a badly written controller card driver. I wasted way too much time on this. Hope this info helps some of you.
Warranty & Returns
Warranty
Return Policies
This item is covered by Newegg.com's 30-Day Return Policy
Manufacturer Contact Info
Website: https://www.rosewill.com/
Support Phone: 1-800-575-9885
Support Email: techsupport@rosewill.com
Features & Details
- 2 x SATA 150 + 1 x ATA 133 Internal Connectors
- Up to 1.5Gb/s
- Chipset: VIA 6421
Specifications
| Brand | Rosewill |
|---|---|
| Model | RC-215 |
| Type | SATA / IDE |
|---|---|
| Internal Connectors | 2 x SATA 150 + 1 x ATA 133 |
| Interface | PCI |
| Transfer Rate | Up to 1.5Gb/s |
| Operating Systems Supported | Windows 98SE/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP/Vista, Plug n Play support for Win7 (32/64 bit, build 7600) |
| Features | Chipset: VIA 6421 RC-215 is design for someone who needs to refresh or hook up SATA/ ATA HDD to his system and doesn't need any external eSATA port. Complinat with Serial ATA 1.0 specification. Compatible with ATA/ATAPI-6 specifications. Compliant with PCI Specification Rev. 2.2. Supports all UDMA and PIO modes. Supports ACPI. Supports the Scatter/Gather function for the DMA/UDMA function. Supports PCI power management V1.0 to reduce power consumption. Dual independent DMA channels. *Note: HDD Controllers are capable to support all HDD sizes, but different OS may limited the HDD sizes that can be supported. For example, XP 32-bit supports only up to 2TB. *This Model supports Optical Drive (both IDE and SATA CD/DVD-ROM including Blu-ray drives.) |
|---|
| Package Contents | 1x PCI SATA + PATA Raid Card 1 x User Manual 1 x Driver CD |
|---|
| First Listed on Newegg | October 09, 2007 |
|---|