Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:59:25AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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?
Just for a datapoint, I'm using two of the ST3250823AS models (the cuda
7200.8s that do support NCQ) on a 3112, and they work beautifully. IIRC
the 3114 is only different from the 3112 in that it has four ports instead
of two (correct me if I'm wrong of course)
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