On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Ah but then come the rounded ide cables to the rescue! > > Excellent idea. > > > Sometimes its also ok to get a firmware raid card and run it using > > software RAID, because at least for Promise PDC, you will definitly get > > ATA-100, which is sometimes iffy if your onboard IDE is not supported by > > the linux IDE UDMA driver (read: Serverworks chipset can only go up to > > ATA-33). > > I heard that, too. That's a pity, because ATA 66 (if not ATA 100) is > probably worth the trouble. > > But the fact that you can't use the Promise without proprietary, > binary-only drivers makes it the wrong choice, in my view. Even > though they're cheaper. Not worth the disadvantages: > http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#hardwaresupport
Linux-IDE without the binary promise driver can support JBOD Promise PDC at UDMA 100 (so you can run software RAID on them at UDMA-100 speed), but does not support Firmware-RAID enabled RAID 1 or 5. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
