thanx to you all :) I guess I will go and buy promise ata100 and a new harddisk
Edwin Lau On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:10:55 Daniel Freedman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > newer VIA ide chipsets seem flaky with linux. i have > > a Epox MVP3G5(Super7) and it runs perfect. but once i upgraded > > to a p3 ...ide started getting whacked bad. now the hd > > could be going too, but if i were you i'd go out and get > > a promise ide ata66 or ata100 controller for that machine > > and see if that helps. it has done wonders for both of my > > VIA based systems at home, and im about to install one at > > work once i break down and reboot(74 days and counting.. > > sucks to lose that much uptime). the promise controllers > > are cheap .. US$30-40/each new for OEM parts. > > as for transfer rates i don't use hdparm to judge it > > i use bonnie or bonnie++. i think hdparm may just test > > the drive itself, which can be misleading once you > > start testing it at the filesystem level ..not that > > it matters to me though i want a reliable system, speed > > is ranked 3rd or 4th on my list. > > > > i use the ata100 card from promise btw(not the raid one > > though) > > Hi, > > Just in case your considering buying Promises' 'raid' controller, I > thought you might want to know that Promise is being relatively > disengenuous about this product. They try to sell it as hardware > raid, but in reality all the raid code is implemented in their windows > drivers (so they're taxing your main CPU not offloaded onto silicon on > the controller). Supposedly these are available for linux as well, > but why bother? Buy the cheaper promise non-raid controllers and use > the much better native linux software raid code, if that's what you > want. Though I have no personal experience, if you want IDE-hardware > raid, supposedly 3ware is the place to go (very linux friendly), and > I've always thought Mylex is the right SCSI raid solution (but now > we're really in a different price range and off-track from your > initial question). > > Hope this adds something of use :) > > Take care, > > Daniel > > > -- > Daniel A. Freedman > Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics > Department of Physics > Cornell University > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])