Quick survey, multiple drives

[Robert L Cochran]

Use SATA on a new motherboard if you have it. SATA offers higher 
throughput, the cables are far smaller, and on the better motherboards 
you get a bunch of SATA connectors -- mine has 4. You can buy a 
Highpoint RocketHead 100 serial ATA converter that converts your 
existing PATA drives to SATA. Fedora Core 3 sees the drives just fine 
because the right driver gets loaded at boot time by initrd.

I most appreciate being able to get rid of the old, kludgy, wide ribbon 
cables. Even round IDE cables require more space and are less flexible 
than an SATA cable.

Bob



Paul Tomblin wrote:

>A quick show of hands here:
>- Do you run Fedora Core 3 with multiple ATA-66 or ATA-100 drives?
>- If so, how are they jumpered and cabled?
>- Can you do large fetches and writes to the second drive without
>getting DMA errors?
>
>I'm frustrated as hell by this - I had no problems with the 2.4 kernel
>with my set-up, and now I can't reach my mp3 collection because it's
>on my second drive and the 2.6 kernel seems unable to deal with it.
>
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