Re: [tlug] Serial ATA

[Neil Bortnak =?UTF-8?Q?=28=E3=83=9C=E3=83=88=E3=83=8A=E3=82=AF_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E3=83=8B=E3=83=BC=E3=83=AB?= =?UTF-8?Q?=EF=BC=89?= <nbortnak@example.com>]

Hi Graham,

I was doing some research on that very issue in the last couple of days.
The Silicon Image 3112 chipset appears to be well supported by any
recent kernel and apparently has much better performance than other
solutions. It's very common on new motherboards but is harder to find in
card form. Most budget SATA cards should be based on that chip. The ICH5
one from Intel (core logic based) also works well. The promise one,
until recently, had a binary only driver but they open sourced it a few
weeks ago.

There are a couple of full on RAID cards, including some well supported
4, 8 and 12 port deals from 3ware, but they sound a little
overkill/overpriced for your needs.

If I were you I'd skip the Promise driver until it's merged into 2.6 and
back ported (if they bother) and go with the 3112. I haven't got a clue
about RAID 1, but I would rather do that under Linux RAID anyway.

Neil


On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 17:42, graham briggs wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've done some looking on this , but just wondered what people's 
> personal experience was. I'm looking to upgrade the disk space on my 
> Linux box (Mandrake 9.1) and was thinking of going serial ATA (just a 
> disk, or two, in which case I *might* go RAID 1). I've read of a few 
> people who got this working, and a lot who didn't.  Does anyone have any 
> recommendations, or should I just get a normal IDE-RAID card and normal 
> drives?  Either way I'm looking at a new controller card as my iWill 
> KV200 motherboard is creaking at ATA66.
> Thanks in advance.