On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:56 am, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:37 am, FACORAT Fabrice wrote:
> > > So do I. That's interest me.
> > > I don't think we can do this just with makecd, and some updates are
> > > interesting from the install ( I was thinking of kernel updates and
> > > better ACPI/SATA support )
> >
> > sata worked out of the box with silicone image controlers.
>
> and probably with ICH5/ VIA/ Promise too ?-)
> ((which were missing in 2.4.22-10mdk))
>
> svetljo
I support promise as little as possible here in my shop they have had over the
years a bad habit of causing hard drive corruption and other issues. Buggy
drivers under windows. Selling half broke chipsets to the mobo manufactures
as simple ata controllers these then in turn cause all kinds of problems. My
data is just not worth it.
Not to mention the performance of the promise solution is no really not any
faster than ata 133 for any regular use. In my testing here with si
controllers the speed with a single 80gig sata maxtor was about the same as 2
ata 133 40 gig maxtors running as a raid 0 array on a ata 133 high point
controller. The 40 gigs were 2 meg cache and the 80gig was 8meg cache. All in
all I was impressed with the speed and the sustained throughput was very
impressive. Promise will not give you those numbers.
As for via and I assume intel sata I cant say as I dont have any to test on. I
wanted to pick up a high point sata controller for testing also but have not
yet so it may not be supported either.
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