Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:08:00
Message-Id: 1265787061.3225.27.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far by Neil Walker
1 On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 06:59 +0000, Neil Walker wrote:
2 > Iain Buchanan wrote:
3 > > I'm starting to stray OT here, but I'm considering a second-hand Adaptec
4 > > 2420SA - this is real hardware raid right?
5 > >
6 >
7 > It's a PCI-X card (not PCI-E). Are you sure that's right for your system?
8
9 yes, I have an "old" server tower with everything but the disks (or RAID
10 controller), so it needs PCI-X.
11
12 thanks,
13 --
14 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
15
16 Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is
17 irksome and three minutes is a long time.
18 -- A.E. Houseman