Re: H.D. install problem -

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Bob Goodwin wrote:
Roger Heflin wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 19:58 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I had hoped to make the new drive a third one but sadly I found only
two SATA connectors on the motherboard so I had to revert to plan B.

Or there's plan c - buy a SATA card to plug into your motherboard.


SATA card:

This is the only one I see that recognizes the existence of non Microsoft operating systems [there are some that mention Apple OSX] but do I care? This one has a raid function [which I don't need] that might require MS software but I would expect a controller card to just work except possibly for some change in the BIOS settings?


             HighPoint ROCKETRAID1520 W/O PCI SATA Controller Card -

       *Operating Systems Supported:* Windows 98 / ME / NT4.0 / 2K / XP
       / 2003 Linux (SuSE, Red Hat), and FreeBSD


It looks to me like a $15 or $20 card ought to work by just plugging it in without Windows but I need reassurance.

Does anyone know for certain?

Bob



Run away from that card, supported by linux typically means that they include
a driver in the box.

Any of the Sil* based cards should work, and should be really really cheap (<$30).

                            Roger

Yes, that's what I thought but I have been reluctant to order one until someone verified it.

I'll pick one from Newegg's list and order it this afternoon. They show a bunch of them. Most limited to 1.5 gB/s. The drive I bought is spec'd for 3 gigs but I noticed it came jumpered for 1.5? Don't know what the one I removed is rated for. But it has the /boot/ file on it and it would make my life easier to just use it.

So far I am quite happy with F-9, even sound works once I got the speaker plug in the right jack, no pulse audio problem here.

Tnx.

Bob

1.5 or 3 won't matter.   It is unlikely the drive itself will overload the 1.5
stuff. The best (they cost quite a bit more-WD Raptors) drives top out at sustained rates of 100MB/second (about 1.0 Gbps), normal drives only do about 60-75MB/second, and likely if you put multiple drives on those boards you will hit the PCI bus limit which is lower than 1.5Gbps (132MB/second), so it won't matter one bit what the actual SATA connection speed is.

                          Roger

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