On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Paul M Dunphy wrote:
> >it'll work. my only concern is that i'm not certain that the linux
> >triton driver recognizes and supports DMA busmastering with the 440LX
> >chipset's integrated EIDE controller. 2.0.32 and 2.0.33 don't appear
...
> A good point. I don't expect that performance will be a big deal
> overall as this is a high-end system, but it's things like this that I
> wanted to get some opinions on. There is no point getting a fast system
The new 2.1 kernels do the Triton busmastering in a completely different
way which should work with more or less every Triton chip out there,
including the ones on the 430VX/430TX and all the 440 boards. I'm not
entirely sure how much improvement they get on UDMA type drives. In any
case, I would predict 2.2 (the stable series incorporating all the 2.1
improvements) will be out in the next couple of months, so my guess is
that RedHat 5.2 will include this kernel version. :)
In any case, the difference in performance is not too great, unless your
applications are very disk intensive. If they are, then any server or
multiuser system should be using SCSI anyway. UDMA drives are still IDE
drives, and they still impose excessive loads on the CPU. They just don't
impose as much as they used to. :)
> Got the Fujitsu purely because it was cheaper. Have had good luck with
> them at work, but like anything else, you get what you pay for. Think I'll
> stick with this one.
I've heard some horror stories about the Fujitsus. Of course I have a few
of them myself and none of them ever so much as blinked. I guess it all
depends on what "batch" your drives come out of. In any case, Fujitsu
seems to be pretty good about RMA's on their defective drives...
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