[PLUG] Main Board recommendations
Galen Seitz
galens at seitzassoc.com
Wed Jan 12 19:55:27 UTC 2005
Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
> What are good dual AMD 64 bit CPU ( 2 GHz+ ) main boards? Must support
> 1 GByte RAM minimum and I'm recommending SATA drive(s) so an onboard SATA
> controller ( RAID or no ) would be nice but not a requirement.
If you are interested in using SATA, I highly recommend reading about the
current state of Linux SATA support.
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/
Capsule summary:
Many so called RAID controllers are really software RAID, where you
would be better off using the md driver.
Most of today's controllers do not support TCQ/NCQ.
galen
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