Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> You did not specify whether I should be looking for a drive with NCQ or
> without NCQ. :-)
Look for information on the SIL 3114. I don't own one, so I wouldn't know.
I know that, for my ICH5R boards, I need SATA 150 because of chipset
problems (I searched and read the errata datasheet from Intel), and NCQ
won't make a difference at all (because the chip doesn't implement TCQ or
NCQ).
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856152018
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065
> Do you think that I may run into problems with these?
No idea. As I said, do the homework in google :-( I just pointed it out to
you that a Barracuda is not the same as other Barracuda unless you remember
to also ask the model.
The ones in that blacklist in the kernel are ancient drives as far as these
things go :P So that blacklist is not worth much for making a decision.
I'd get one of the newer 7200.8 (NCQ), there is no reason to believe the
7200.9 would give you any advantage, and there might be compatibility
problems, and the NCQ versions of the 7200.8 have newer firmware _and_ are
newer drives so you get more warranty out of them :P
Why don't you test the drives in the platform first, before buying them?
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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