Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:12 -0600, Dale wrote: Neil Walker wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast A quick Google led to

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Feb 2008, at 05:12, Dale wrote: Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a SATA hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will the PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/ sec on my IDE drives. Would this setup be any

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 15 Feb 2008, at 05:12, Dale wrote: Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a SATA hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will the PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/sec on my IDE drives. Would this

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Stroller wrote: PCI-express has _signifcantly_ more capacity than regular old PCI - I read recently that regular old PCI may be unable to keep up with a gigabit network card that onboard gigbit network ports are faster. PCI = 133mb/sec theoretical. 100mb with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: PCI = 133mb/sec theoretical. 100mb with a good chipset (ie not nforce). PCIE = 250mb/sec theoretical I think 64-bit 66Mhz PCI will actually do 526Mb/s theoretical maximum ... I can achieve 220Mb/s real I/O bandwidth (4 disk array) on my gear here. (old

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Feb 2008, at 15:57, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... I tend to think of PCI-X just as long PCI or only-a-bit-faster-than PCI. you think wrong. ... PCI-X is A LOT faster than PCI, faster than PCIE 1x, 2x Ooops. Hi Volker, My apologies for posting misleadingly my thanks to you for

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I wrote: I think 64-bit 66Mhz PCI will actually do 526Mb/s theoretical maximum ... I can achieve 220Mb/s real I/O bandwidth (4 disk array) on my gear here. (old Supermicro P4TDER). Actually, doing the calculation properly gets 508 MB/s (532 MB/s is often quoted, but that is using 1000

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-14 Thread Neil Walker
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast A quick Google led to this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003 Be

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 14 February 2008 06:08:23 pm Neil Walker wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast A quick Google led to this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: I'm confused... what is the diff between pi-x pci-e and pci? The card that Neil pointed to is a PCI card. Is that what he wanted? pci is a parallel bus. 32bit, 33mhz pci-x is an 64bit, 66mhz enhancement of the pci bus - backwards compatible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-14 Thread Dale
Neil Walker wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast A quick Google led to this: