[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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