Thanks, Mark, for the info. Sounds like I need to avoid ATI <G>. I'm in a position where I have a motherboard that doesn't support SATA so I can either go IDE or SATA and going SATA appears to be the future way. That means I have to add a card.
Wat the Promise used on a Linux system? Sounds like I'll pass on Seagate - we used to say the made IDE and DOA drives <G>. Thanks. On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi Brett > > On 1/8/06, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID > > (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up > > too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those > > with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. > > > > 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have > > you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands > > I have no experience with SATA cards so this may be useless info. I've > used Promise SATA on a 2 year old machine at my dad's house, NVidia > SATA in my AMD64 machine and ATI SATA in my Pundit-R Myth frontend > machines. Of the three the ATI has worked pretty badly in terms of > performance. All have been reliable so far. > > > 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've > > crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the > > Ultrastores. > > I'm at wit's end about Seagate drives. I bought 3 80GB Seagates from > Newegg. The produced all sorts of strange messages in my dmesg files > and I sent them back. This was on the ATI Pundit-R machines. I've used > WD SATA drives in the other machines, 80GB and 250GB. They have worked > really well. > > Again, it's pretty limited info and probably not very useful in terms > of buying an adapter card, etc. > > Good luck, > Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
