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On Saturday 25 March 2006 15:59, Jarry <jarry@×××.net> wrote about 'Re: |
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[gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?': |
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> Norberto Bensa wrote: |
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> I did. Bought nForce4-based board. Got stuck with sata-II drives |
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> (lock-ups, crushes, out-of-sync, both in linux and in windows). |
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> It is a buggy chipset, has problems with nearly all sata-II drives |
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> (tried Seagate and Samsung) and nvidia does not care a sh*t... |
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Odd, my nforce4 board has not encountered any issues since I bought it last |
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year. It successfully drives my WD Raptors and SATA CD/DVD-RW. |
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I've not been using dmraid, although the board is supposedly supported. |
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Although, I do have to say that I prefer my Areca 1160 -- Battery backed-up |
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cache so I can enable write caching, and real hw raid. It drives my 5 |
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Hitachi 7K500s -- though the Hitachi actually ship with SATA-II disabled |
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because they had issues with poor controller support and I have not used a |
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real-mode OS to set them to use SATA-II, yet. (They are freakin' fast as |
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is.) |
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I occurs to me that perhaps the Raptors are also only using SATA-I, as |
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well, I really don't know how to check that. |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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