Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:05:29 +0200 (EET) | From | Matti Kleemola <> | Subject | Is SATA working? (Can I use sw.raid-5 with SATA + ATA drives?) |
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I need a new motherboard and I have to decide should I buy Epox PE-4PCA3+ (and use 3 ATA drives connected to HPT374) or Asus P4C800E-Deluxe (and use 1(2) SATA drive and 2(1) ATA drives).
Board from Asus is about 5% faster in every zone (tomshardware.com) but can I make it work? In Asus there is unfortunately only 3 ATA connectors (one is needed for CD-RW) and I'm not going to put 2 drives on the same cable.
I understood that there are some problems with promise 20378 used in Asus (in 64 bit mode). Is that something I need to worry about?
Here are chips used in those boards: Chipset (both boards): Intel 875P + ICH5R
Asus: Promise 20378 raid Intel 82547 lan Soundmax
Epox: HPT374 raid BCM5705 / 5788 lan cmi9739A (sounds)
If network or soundsystem is not working rightaway it's not a problem cause I still have working PCI-cards. If disks are working that's enough for a while. I'm sure that sound and networks chips will also work on some day.
Asus have also other very interesting board (P4P800-Deluxe) but it uses VIA 6410 as a raid controlled and I understood that it's not working (and VIA is not going to support opensource.. :( ). With that board I could use ATA drives (4 connectors, two of them coming from VIA6410). It would be almost as fast as P4C800.
ps. I'm just an ordinary home user and I don't understand any details.
Thanks, Matti ..with great (but broken) Abit KT7-RAID - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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