> supported and should work fine with Linux, esp. if you stay away
> from the IDE controllers.
I don't agree. the PIIX controller works *perfectly*
and the HPT366 seems to do OK with modern kernels (ie pre-2.4,
not 2.2 crap). I recently tested a maxtor dm40+: it delivered
around 28 MB/s on a PIIX udma33 channel, and >32 MB/s on a
HPT366 udma66 channel. very impressive.
otoh, all bp6's seem prone to APIC errors under load.
running noapic is a simple workaround and doesn't seem to have
any perceptible effect on usability. (ie, handling all interrupts
on one CPU is sometimes a blessing, but could result in overall
lower performance or higher latency when you're blasting interrupts
at it on multiple irq's...)
I haven't tried the new RR bios to see whether it alleviates
APIC problems. QQ doesn't.
regards, mark hahn.
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