On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Dragan Krnic wrote: > >Which IDE chipset? We ran our network on a machine runnning > >essentially 9.0 (cooker but with 2.4.19-16mdk kernel, and most > >server components and libraries haven't changed) on a 120GB > >IDE disk for a week with no problems, with dma enabled. So > >it might be chipset specific. > > Good question! The chipset in my case was i845 from Intel. > I had it running for a month in a sandbox with only a couple > of clients, but when I eventually took it into production and > added 40 clients it would simply freeze from time to time > necessitating a cold start. >
IIRC, the i845 does give problems with DMA enabled under 2.4.19, I think smoe people are having more success with the latest kernels ... > My distro is SuSE 8.1, but 2.4.19 is 2.4.19 is 2.4.19, right? > I'd never go back to IDE even if I knew the problem is > solved. At my home I can use anything, it doesn't matter. > But a file server may be privileged with a couple of decent > SCSI drives if you're serious. And besides, 15 Krpm LVD disks > are a lot faster than 7200 IDEs and I can string many more on > the same wire. And even better if you cah do hardware RAID ... and then use LVM over that ;-). Our new Dell PowerEdge 2500 has 5*36GB/15k LVDs setup like that, and is stable as a rock (so far, it's only been in production for a few weeks). Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
