Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks, Mark, for the info.  Sounds like I need to avoid ATI <G>.  I'm in a 
position where I have a motherboard that doesn't support SATA so I can either 
go IDE or SATA and going SATA appears to be the future way.  That means I 
have to add a card.

Wat the Promise used on a Linux system?

Sounds like I'll pass on Seagate - we used to say the made IDE and DOA drives 
<G>.

Thanks.

On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi Brett
>
> On 1/8/06, Brett I. Holcomb <brettholcomb@×××××××××.net> wrote:
> > I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID
> > (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up
> > too well) and am looking at going with SATA.  Some input from the those
> > with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated.
> >
> > 1.  SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have
> > you found to work? Is Promise any good?  What are some good brands
>
> I have no experience with SATA cards so this may be useless info. I've
> used Promise SATA on a 2 year old machine at my dad's house, NVidia
> SATA in my AMD64 machine and ATI SATA in my Pundit-R Myth frontend
> machines. Of the three the ATI has worked pretty badly in terms of
> performance. All have been reliable so far.
>
> > 2.  Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well.  I've
> > crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the
> > Ultrastores.
>
> I'm at wit's end about Seagate drives. I bought 3 80GB Seagates from
> Newegg. The produced all sorts of strange messages in my dmesg files
> and I sent them back. This was on the ATI Pundit-R machines. I've used
> WD SATA drives in the other machines, 80GB and 250GB. They have worked
> really well.
>
> Again, it's pretty limited info and probably not very useful in terms
> of buying an adapter card, etc.
>
> Good luck,
> Mark

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