Re: Recommendations for server: Intel E7520
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, annpost@can.no wrote:
> He has an ICH6 SATA controller in one machine he offered to us.
> Would that work out of the box? Any experiences?
If it is one of the ICH6 with a AHCI controller (everything but the very
first ICH6, i.e. a ICH6R, ICH6M, etc), it is a damn good SATA bridge.
> And with the ICH5 controller, did you have to do anything special to get
> it to work?
Don't expect a SATA-300 disk to work with a ICH5 unless the drive itself has
a fallback-to-SATA-150 dipswitch/strap due to hardware bugs on the ICH5.
ICH5 also can't hotplug (it can coldplug).
ICH6 doesn't have those problems.
Other than that, a new kernel (any 2.6.10+) will work just fine with it.
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