Re: Exhausted by P3V4X+Maxtor harddisk.... looking for ata100 stuff... suggestion?
thanx to you all :)
I guess I will go and buy promise ata100 and a new harddisk
Edwin Lau
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:10:55 Daniel Freedman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, aphro@portal.aphroland.org wrote:
> > newer VIA ide chipsets seem flaky with linux. i have
> > a Epox MVP3G5(Super7) and it runs perfect. but once i upgraded
> > to a p3 ...ide started getting whacked bad. now the hd
> > could be going too, but if i were you i'd go out and get
> > a promise ide ata66 or ata100 controller for that machine
> > and see if that helps. it has done wonders for both of my
> > VIA based systems at home, and im about to install one at
> > work once i break down and reboot(74 days and counting..
> > sucks to lose that much uptime). the promise controllers
> > are cheap .. US$30-40/each new for OEM parts.
> > as for transfer rates i don't use hdparm to judge it
> > i use bonnie or bonnie++. i think hdparm may just test
> > the drive itself, which can be misleading once you
> > start testing it at the filesystem level ..not that
> > it matters to me though i want a reliable system, speed
> > is ranked 3rd or 4th on my list.
> >
> > i use the ata100 card from promise btw(not the raid one
> > though)
>
> Hi,
>
> Just in case your considering buying Promises' 'raid' controller, I
> thought you might want to know that Promise is being relatively
> disengenuous about this product. They try to sell it as hardware
> raid, but in reality all the raid code is implemented in their windows
> drivers (so they're taxing your main CPU not offloaded onto silicon on
> the controller). Supposedly these are available for linux as well,
> but why bother? Buy the cheaper promise non-raid controllers and use
> the much better native linux software raid code, if that's what you
> want. Though I have no personal experience, if you want IDE-hardware
> raid, supposedly 3ware is the place to go (very linux friendly), and
> I've always thought Mylex is the right SCSI raid solution (but now
> we're really in a different price range and off-track from your
> initial question).
>
> Hope this adds something of use :)
>
> Take care,
>
> Daniel
>
>
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> Daniel A. Freedman
> Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
> Department of Physics
> Cornell University
>
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