Re: Multi-Chanel ATA, was: Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-12-03 Thread Sasi Peter
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > I bought the 2 channel thing for 400 DM (~160$). I guess the 8 chanel You can buy one for under $30 with two channels. So even is the 8 channel one is $200 and not $120 (4x30) I would still prefer this one. > thing is about 1000DM. That's not too much I

Re: Multi-Chanel ATA, was: Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-28 Thread Uwe Bonnes
Sasi Peter writes: > On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > > > the 3Ware Controllers have up to 8 channels. However I think you can > > only use one drive per chanel. > > Hi! > > I'm afraid they have only one with intel RISC on board for hardware raid, > which amkes these card rather exensiv

Re: Multi-Chanel ATA, was: Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-27 Thread Sasi Peter
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > the 3Ware Controllers have up to 8 channels. However I think you can > only use one drive per chanel. Hi! I'm afraid they have only one with intel RISC on board for hardware raid, which amkes these card rather exensive for me wanting multilple channels,

Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-27 Thread Sasi Peter
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27 2000, Sasi Peter wrote: > > > implementation listed in the specs Linux might as well not support it :) > > > It's simply not worth it. > > But seriously, how come? > > I thought they just somewhat like copied the SCSI implementation... > I w

Re: Multi-Chanel ATA, was: Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-27 Thread Uwe Bonnes
Hallo, the 3Ware Controllers have up to 8 channels. However I think you can only use one drive per chanel. Bye Uwe Bonnes[EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt - Tel. 06151 162516 Fax. 06151 164321 -- - To un

Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27 2000, Sasi Peter wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I would like to ask if the tagged command queueing capability in the > > decent ATA standards is utilized in the linux IDE driver (2.2 2.2ide > ^^ > > patches, or 2.4 maybe...)? > > I hope that

Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Nov 27 2000, Sasi Peter wrote: > > implementation listed in the specs Linux might as well not support it :) > > It's simply not worth it. > > But seriously, how come? > > I thought they just somewhat like copied the SCSI implementation... I wish they would have, and based it on atapi. B

Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-26 Thread Sasi Peter
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: > > I would like to ask if the tagged command queueing capability in the > > decent ATA standards is utilized in the linux IDE driver (2.2 2.2ide > ^^ > > patches, or 2.4 maybe...)? > I hope that is supposed to be 'recent', because with the current TCQ

Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Nov 27 2000, Sasi Peter wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to ask if the tagged command queueing capability in the > decent ATA standards is utilized in the linux IDE driver (2.2 2.2ide ^^ > patches, or 2.4 maybe...)? I hope that is supposed to be 'recent', because with the current TCQ