From: Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
To: Nick Urbanik <nicku@vtc.edu.hk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble??
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:43:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308311443.55543.hpj@urpla.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4F5C9A.5BAA1542@vtc.edu.hk>
Hi Nick,
On Friday 29 August 2003 16:00, Nick Urbanik wrote:
>
> Performance is a relatively minor issue compared with stability and
> low cost.
>
> Is there _anyone_ who is using a number of ATA133 IDE disks (>=6),
> each on its own IDE channel, on a number of PCI IDE cards, and
> doing so successfully and reliably? I begin to suspect not! If
> so, please tell us what motherboard, IDE cards you are using. I
> used to imagine that a terabyte of RAID storage on one P4 machine
> with ordinary cheap IDE cards with software RAID would be feasible.
> I believe it is not (although I cannot afford to play musical
> motherboards).
It is. I'm running several pretty stable systems with IDE SW RAID 5
on top of Promise TX2/100 (~30 Eur) controllers. There was a long
standing limit of two cards from this type, which seems to be removed
lately (as Alan stated). At least, the test system hasn't fallen on
it's face, when adding a third controller, and attached devices acted
as expected without freezing, throwing DMA errors, and the like.
Of course, the usual "don't buy the latest and greatest hardware,
if the manufacturer isn't fully commited to linux support" applies.
Promise isn't!
Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-31 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-29 0:49 Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? Nick Urbanik
2003-08-29 9:50 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-29 14:00 ` Nick Urbanik
2003-08-29 14:22 ` lk
2003-08-29 14:38 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-29 21:14 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-30 3:46 ` Nick Urbanik
2003-09-08 6:13 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-08 17:20 ` Joel Jaeggli
2003-08-29 15:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-31 12:43 ` Hans-Peter Jansen [this message]
2003-08-31 15:46 ` joe briggs
2003-08-31 23:41 ` Nick Urbanik
2003-09-01 6:01 ` many IDE PCI cards "spurious 8259a" irq15(SMBus nforce2) Resident Boxholder
2003-09-01 7:51 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-01 10:14 ` IDE PCI cards IOAPIC " Resident Boxholder
2003-09-06 12:44 ` Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? Steve Bromwich
2003-10-22 16:36 Alex Finch
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