On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > Does anyone have any success stories with using larger IDE disks, > specifically 160GB or more, with a PCI IDE controller card? > > I was interested in using a Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE card and attaching > four Maxtor 160GB disks, but a search for the card on the hardware > compatibility list at Red Hat produced no hits. The support section of > Promise's website show patches for the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels. > > > Are those patches, or functional equivalents, already rolled into the > stock Red Hat kernel? > > Has anyone had any problems running with such a setup? > > The system I am considering this for will use a Shuttle AK35GTR/2 > motherboard with on-board IDE RAID. I'm planning to add the 4 disks on > the card, leave the onboard RAID alone, and add a smaller disk for the > OS. I don't think this will cause a problem, but I'm not an IDE expert > either. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. I think you are going to have problems. I presume you want to do lots of I/O. Two ATA drives on one IDE port do not work well, you cannot drive them both at once. With all those ribbon cables around, ventilation is going to be doubtful. Sure, you can cut and tie them, but people here who know about electronics will counsel against that. Hello, Jo? I recommend you use SCSI or (Maybe) Serial ATA. SCSI is the proven performer, SATA is the new kid on the block. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
