On 4 Nov 2002, Joon Guillen wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 22:13, Ian C. Sison wrote: > > > > On the other hand, if the motherboard ATA chipset is decent and you need > > > only two hard drives, then buy a cheap PCI ATA adapter for your CD > > > drive, and save the cost of hardware RAID. > > > > 'Decent' means several things : > > > > 1. that the ATA IDE chipset actually is a good, well designed, and fully > > featured > > > Just a side question: What are examples of "good" ATA IDE chipsets?
In my experience, Promise and Intel give consistent UDMA 100 and to me are the most stable at 2.4.19. VIA is also supported but there are some newer chipsets which reportedly cause corruption in pre-2.4.18 kernels. SIS UDMA detection fails in some chipset combinations although when you enable it with hdparm it works with no problems Serverworks as i said is supported but panics when it encounters bad sectors. Your mileage may vary. To be sure, get either promise or Intel. In general if you see UDMA(xx) in 'dmesg' your chipset after the drive detection phase, then it is supported and you are running IDE at the fastest possible speed. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
