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Re: current status of alpha in squeeze - Storage Question - we will need to store the code some where - Fwd: Disk drives



On 29/03/2011, at 9:31 AM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
As of disks, I have a one disk (Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB),
which I can attach for a brief period of time into my Alpha,
using PCI SATA controler. But I think other people is already using
such disks in their machines. Can anybody confirm?

I have a 1.5TB SATA disc interfaced via a PCI-X SATA controller in my Alpha. Has been working fine for quite some time. Also a lot faster than the onboard qlogic SCSI. I still have a (much smaller) SCSI disc as the boot disc since SRM won't boot SATA discs or Compact-Flash on an IDE interface.

Cheers
Michael.


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