[Xastir] Serial ata drives

[Dick C. Reichenbach]

All right!!!   I surrender.  I will assign myself to write on the 
blackboard 50 times "2.6.x is stable"

I was pretty surprised about the recent price drop.  I picked up MB, 
Athlon 3200+, 512Mb DDR, and 80 Gig SATA drive for $341 plus tax.  I 
know I could have gotten it cheaper on the net, but that price just 
didn't seem that bad.

Dick R.

Gerry Creager n5jxs wrote:

> Lots of MoBo makers for Athlon64/Opteron chipsets went with the NVidia 
> chips on the MoBos.  Drivers are either not there or not ready for 
> prime time.  That's been a problem.  My 1TB RAID system is on a K8N 
> board, and I've got several PCI cards doing things for me there.  
> Hopefully this'll get worked out eventually.
>
> Now: Interesting side:  I can now get SuperMicro 1u systems for Xeon 
> cheaper than I can Opterons and Athlon64s.  Thus, the next round of 
> stuff I buy will be Xeons!
>
> gerry
>
>>
>>> I'll echo this.  I've not seen a single issue with
>>> 2.6.7 so far!
>>>
>>> I've got a bunch of SATA running in a RAID config,
>>> with a Linux controller running 2.4.mumble on an embedded PPC. The 
>>> term blindingly fast comes to mind.
>>>