Re: Installing a promise ata 66 pci ide card
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:06:32PM -0700, Sam wrote:
>
> I have reached a storage conundrum, i have a dual p3 server 1gbit ram
> running off a 9 gig scsi as well as 4 ide hdd's totalling 1.5Terabytes. The
> problem is: I cannot afford scsi drives and i have used up all 4 ide slots.
> I am trying to plan for expansion, I happen to have a promise ultra ata 66
> pci card with two ide slots. My question being what is necessary to install
> this promise card? I tried googling but there was nothing but "debian not
> recognizing hard disks, using promise card" etc, nothing about installing
> the card on a boxen that already has debian on it.
>
> As a side note, if anyone has any other suggestions for expansion, feel free
> to field them, as I am not set in my ways ;)
Why not install a SATA card (PATA cables block too much air flow, among
other problems), and you don't get into the master/slave controller
contention issues with SATA. This gives you lots of expansion options.
I don't know about brands of cards. My MB has 7 SATA ports.
Check out addonics.com. Their products that work with linux are listed
as working with linux.
Doug.
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