On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 20:32 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> About 9 months ago, I made a policy decision to adopt RAID 1 on all systems I
> admin. (about 20 systems, all told) It's been a long, slow process.
>
> One of the systems is being upgraded from CentOS3 to CentOS4. It's been
> rock-solid stable for over a year. It's a "frankenserver" with parts from all
> over the place, maintained over years of active service.
>
> Currently, it's got an ASRock "M810LMR" motherboard in it.
> http://www.ciao.co.uk/ASRock_M810LMR__5410842
Looks like this board is based on a early socket A VIA chipset ...
generally I would avoid these. My past experience with older VIA
chipsets has been less than good ... I've had issues with buggy IDE
implementations in KT266 & KT133A and having to run them in PIO mode
rather than DMA mode (SLOW).
I would use a cheap PCI IDE card and see what happens.
Regards,
Paul Berger
