Current best recommendation for Athlon 64 motherboard?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I agree with Bryan....I've been there before and had the same RAID 
> troubles. Solution was to change my motherboard from Asus to Gigabyte 
> and use Linux software RAID. It wasn't that hard getting RAID working 
> and it was fun for a while, but then I coveted the mirror drive for 
> other things and said the heck with RAID and went back to a single 
> drive configuration (no RAID.)
> 
> But my big problem at that time was I foolishly invested in (very 
> expensive) RDRAM, and did so just as RDRAM was going downhill with 
> avalanche speed. I had been very influenced by Maximim PC magazine 
> when making my buying choices. Now I'm considerably wiser.

3Ware Escalade 7006-2 and 8006-2 cards are $100.

Now you can find older Escalade 6200 and 6410 on eBay for under $50.
The 6.9 firmware even updates them with 48-bit addressing (greater than 
137GB/128GiB support).
But the newer 3DM2 (3Ware Disk Manager version 2) doesn't work with 
those cards.
And the older 3DM interfaces are deprecated in the new 2.6 kernel.

--
Bryan J. Smith   mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org
Currently Mobile