On 14 Feb 2006, at 20:18, Brandon Mercer wrote: >> Has anybody managed to get the CERC SATA raid controller running >> on 3.8 or 3.9-stable? Alternatively, where's the cheapest source >> of LSI SATA cards? Can I boot from a system installed on an LSI >> card? > > LSI cards, as has been talked to death in the archives, are GREAT > cards, of course the work and boot properly. :-) Also, newegg > usually has them at a good price. Brandon
Unfortunately: http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16816118007 Looks like we'll be spending a bit more cash on this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16816118015 I'm intrigued by the comment: > Although it will function in a PCI slot,the throughput is marginal > even with 4 x 36 gig raptors in RAID 0. I was expecting at least > 150 mbps transfer rates and Im only geting 80. Technical support > was knowlegable and I didn't have to wait more than 5 minutes to > talk to someone. The informed me that this card performs best in a > 64 bit/100 mhz slot such as a server board. IMHO its price is not > justified vs the performance in a 32 bit system The application we have for the server does not require heavy data- throughput, so this bottleneck wouldn't be too much of a problem, but if I can spend a few more quid on a different mobo to get double the speed, I'd like to. What am I looking for here, motherboards that will take a 64 bit CPU and have 100Mhz PCI slots? That's a PCI-X card, no? Gaby -- Junkets for bunterish lickspittles since 1998! http://vanhegan.net/sudoku/ http://weblog.vanhegan.net/