[Xastir] Serial ata drives

[Gerry Creager n5jxs]

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

Richard Polivka wrote:
> I run a Athlon64 3000+ on a Gigabyte K8NS Pro mobo. OS
> is Fedora Core 3 RC2 for X86_64. I have one SATA drive
> (250GB Maxtor) hanging off of the Silicon Image
> controller and working just fine as my root drive. The
> ports attached to the NForce3 chip are seen by the OS
> but do not function at all correctly. I haven't
> benchmarked it but I will say that the unit hauls.
> Benchmarks are coming later - hdparm style - and a
> compile of Xastir for it as well in 64-bit mode. 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Richard, N6NKO
> 
> --- Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
>>
>>Apparently the reason the device reports a SCSI is
>>simple:  The 
>>difference between SCSI and SATA is seriously
>>blurred.  Look at your 
>>newer SATA drives, and note the controller boards
>>thereon have areas 
>>that aren't populated.  Some of the unpopulated
>>areas are reportedly for 
>>SCSI components, some for the newer, not ready for
>>prime-time, serial-SCSI.
>>
>>gerry
>>
>>Chris Abbott wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 20:10, Dick C. Reichenbach
>>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>>On a completly similar note:  I just upgraded my
>>
>>system to a newer 
>>
>>>>computer, so I think we are following similar
>>
>>path's.  I just got my new 
>>
>>>>'puter  assembled today, in fact.
>>>>
>>>>I noticed my SATA drive didn't come up under an
>>
>>older 2.4.22 kernel I 
>>
>>>>had lying around.  Reading some articles on this I
>>
>>downloaded a new 
>>
>>>>2.4.27 kernel and it was recognised.  I understand
>>
>>from some of the 
>>
>>>>reports that I read, that the drivers aren't
>>
>>running at full speed, yet, 
>>
>>>>and some faults are showing up, although at first
>>
>>glance my computer is 
>>
>>>>running without any kernel panics, yet. 
>>
>>Supposedly the support in the 
>>
>>>>2.6.7 kernels are better, but the tradeoff is that
>>
>>the 2.6.7 kernels 
>>
>>>>aren't as stable.  My SATA1 showed up as /dev/sda.
>>
>>>Umm, I've been running 2.6.7 on my desktop, and I
>>
>>haven't had any
>>
>>>problems with it. I've got 2.6.0 on the server,
>>
>>and it has been rock
>>
>>>solid. I'm going to eventually upgrade it to
>>
>>2.6.7.
>>
>>>
>>>>According to the docs, my Giga-byte board will
>>
>>take both ATA's and 
>>
>>>>SATA's at the same time.  I havn't tried it yet. 
>>
>>My friend has an older 
>>
>>>>board, his won't take both at once.
>>>>
>>>>As for booting linux.  That shouldn't be a
>>
>>problem.  Assuming that the 
>>
>>>>new computer can handle having both in there at
>>
>>the same time, then it's 
>>
>>>>just a matter of telling bios which drive has boot
>>
>>priority.
>>
>>>>
>>>>Let me know if you have any more questions.
>>>>Dick R.
>>>>
>>>>James Jolin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Curt,
>>>>>I know the subject line sounds a bit ot , but I
>>
>>thought I pick the 
>>
>>>>>brains of the group. I just got a new computer
>>
>>with serial ATA ports.  
>>
>>>>>My linux box is on my older computer on a second
>>
>>harddrive  (ata).  I 
>>
>>>>>would like to take that drive and install it in
>>
>>the new computer, but 
>>
>>>>>I don't know if that will be compatable.  I could
>>
>>just keep the old 
>>
>>>>>computer, but I'm starting to run out of space. 
>>
>>I really didn't know 
>>
>>>>>where to go with this question, so I thought I
>>
>>start with you all.
>>
>>>>>Jim wa9arb
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