[Xastir] Serial ata drives

[Gerry Creager n5jxs]

That's a pretty good price!

Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:
> 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.
>>>>
> 
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