I’m having some grief. I’ve posted elsewhere about a disk that is going faulty on my system, which is based on an MSI K8M Neo-V m/b. My current strategy is to try to add a new disk by adding a new controller. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that everything’s detected and sometimes works. The bad news is that it doesn’t work all the time 🙁 I’ve borrowed a Sweex PU102 – SATA Card PCI – PU102 – which uses the Sil 3512 chip and I’ve bought a Samsung HD103SJ 1 TB SATA disk –

Source: SATA problem – disk, controller or other?