Hi Niels,
If you were to setup a sw raid instead, how would you go about
accommodating 12 200G drives. I'm thinking IDE for cost reasons,
hopefully serial ata too. And, have you heard about the Intel based
RAID chip sets?
Rafael.
Niels Voll wrote:
When I set
up my RH9 system with SATA drives, I don't remember having much of an
issue with a plain SATA setup, the messy part was the hardware RAID.
It can be a bit tricky, when it comes to hardware RAID drivers. While
Promise based RAID chip sets are often less expensive, the word on the
street is, that 3ware based hardware RAID is a much better idea for
Linux in general. Make sure you Google around on that issue.
That being said, there are drivers for RH9 for some of the Promise RAID
chip sets. I'm actually running one right now. But if I was going to do
this again, I'd either get a 3ware card or run Linux software RAID.
...Niels
J. Rafael Sánchez wrote:
I have to admit that maybe I don't understand
Serial ATA very well yet; but I ran into some issues on a new system I
set up recently (Dual Book RH9/WinXP - with a dual-layer IDE dvd
writer, and TWO 200G serial drives).
I have read that there are advantages as SATA over regular ATA,such as
a bit of increase performance, not much, but some nevertheless. Also
the ability of having concurrent read and write requests on the devices
- I'm not sure if I using the right terminology here.
There are several, 4?, not sure, different options for sata
configuration under the bios i.e. legacy, combined, auto, and ??. It
seems that it doesn't really matter what setting you choose, the
devices get detected almost randomly anyway. This affects in what order
the devices get plugged it too.
It gets crazier when you combine regular ata drives plugged into the
regular ide controllers and serial ata drives. It also appears that you
can only have so many of one and so many of the other. You cannot use
all the possible combinations.
Do you think that SATA has long ways to go yet? or is I that don't know
how to use it? I'm in the process of looking for a backup system,
possible a 6 or 12 channel serial ATA raid system on RH9 (raid 5). Do
you think I have some things to be concerned about?
Rafael.
Curtis Sloan wrote:
On Tue September 28 2004 16:58, Kevin
Anderson wrote:
It gets better. So far, the
"recommended" way on most forums is to install
onto a PATA drive, and then GHOST it onto the SATA drive.
I've found a thread that seems to point to some other experimental
drivers
that might work... But geez...
That doesn't sound too far different than what I've heard for Linux
installs using third party-supported SATA drives (meaning there's no
kernel driver for it).
So, really, I think there's two points to be made here: one about
(against?) SATA, and one about Windows installs.
My two cents is that I don't think anyone ever said a Windows install
was easy -- just pretty. ;-) But you're right -- one of the big MS
draws is supposed to be hardware support. If the install process is
going to be the same trouble as a Linux install using the same
hardware, well, why even bother? ;-)
Curtis
Kev.
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:29, Kevin Anderson wrote:
So I'm installing XP on a brand new
machine (at work).
Athlon 64 3500+, SATA Drives, etc.
The boxes don't have floppies, because we won't need them.
So I'm installing XP, and it doesn't have a driver for SATA.
and can I load it from a cdrom? NO, of course not...
This is Windows XP 64bit edition. Bleeding edge MS code.
And it can't be installed on a legacy-free system.
But thankfully, Moms and pops all over the world find that Windows is
far
easier to install.?!?!?!?
I haven't heard that in a while, and now I see why.
Kev.
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