> On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:56 am, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > > > On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:37 am, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > > > > So do I. That's interest me. > > > > I don't think we can do this just with makecd, and some updates are > > > > interesting from the install ( I was thinking of kernel updates and > > > > better ACPI/SATA support ) > > > > > > sata worked out of the box with silicone image controlers. > > > > and probably with ICH5/ VIA/ Promise too ?-) > > ((which were missing in 2.4.22-10mdk)) > > > > svetljo > > I support promise as little as possible here in my shop they have had over > the > years a bad habit of causing hard drive corruption and other issues. Buggy > > drivers under windows. Selling half broke chipsets to the mobo > manufactures > as simple ata controllers these then in turn cause all kinds of problems. > My > data is just not worth it. > > Not to mention the performance of the promise solution is no really not > any > faster than ata 133 for any regular use. In my testing here with si > controllers the speed with a single 80gig sata maxtor was about the same > as 2 > ata 133 40 gig maxtors running as a raid 0 array on a ata 133 high point > controller. The 40 gigs were 2 meg cache and the 80gig was 8meg cache. All > in > all I was impressed with the speed and the sustained throughput was very > impressive. Promise will not give you those numbers. > > > > As for via and I assume intel sata I cant say as I dont have any to test > on.
i can not judge about the quility of the drivers (libata) as i don't have any SATA hardware, but as i play patching the kernel i know that the drivers were not included in 2.4.22-10mdk >I wanted to pick up a high point sata controller for testing also but have > not > yet so it may not be supported either. don't play with HPT ! :) AFAIK they don't have native SATA chip yet, the cards are plain PATA 133 controlers with SATA bridges, and acording to lkml are suported by the hpt374 driver (PATA133) svetljo -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++
