Well supported, reliable NICs for Redhat Linux/Fedora?

[Alan Cox]

> Show me a 15kRPM SATA drive with the capability to truly know that the data 
> has hit the platter (essential for journaling filesystems and ACID compliant 
> databases).  Pity. :-)  One will probably be available soone enough, but by 
> that time the 4u 4+TB of hot swap SCSI will also be a reality.

SATA can support read cache only and multiple outstanding commands so its
as happy at that as scsi. SATA (more so SATA2) removes just about any
relevant bus level advantages scsi has.