<quote who="Andrew Lau"> > I'm stuck at a crossroads right now. My main Athlon 1.2 Ghz workstation > with a Promise UDMA5/100 controller is probably on its last legs before > retirement (its given me 3 years of loyal service -- looking to squeeze > out 2 more). Seeing as it needs a new harddrive anyway, I'm really > wondering whether paying an extra $20-$25 per harddrive and an another $70 > for a Silicon Image Serial ATA Controller [1] is worth it. LKML posts also > seem to give the general impression that overall SATA driver support under > Linux is still preliminary.
I'm running 2 * 120GB SATA disks using Linux software RAID, on an el-cheap-o Silicon Image controller and the Linux IDE subsystem siimage driver. Working well so far, though I had to leave LILO for GRUB to get RAID1 booting going correctly with SATA. Sounds like "upgrading" to the SCSI subsystem's libata-based driver might be a good idea though (and not a hard thing to do with software RAID - the system won't care that my md0 is suddenly sda/sdc instead of hde/hdg). - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway http://2004.guadec.org/ "Having strings in a language seems to be a case of premature optimization." - Paul Graham -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
