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Re: Quick survey, multiple drives

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To: Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@xxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Quick survey, multiple drives

From: Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:57:15 -0500

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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.