On 13/05/11 05:06, Mark Ter Morshuizen wrote: > Does anyone here have any recent experience with using IDE or SATA PCI > controllers on Alpha? I would like to get some big disks on my 5305.
I had a good experience running a 32-bit silicon image 3112 based SATA PCI controller on my XP1000. Works well with a 1.5TB SATA disc. A year ago I updated to a 64-bit Marvell based SATA PCI-X card in the XP1000. Did have some problems early on with older kernels (disk sometimes wouldn't be recognised and the CD/DVD reader/writer which has a SATA interface would error out and even crash the system on inserting certain DVDs!). But it has been working extremely well without problem this year with a newer kernel. Gets nice speed --- can sustain 80Mbytes per sec transfer rate when reading consecutive sectors. I know of other people using Silicon Image 3112 and 3124 chipsets that have been very happy. It's a great way to go. You may need to keep a SCSI disk in the system for booting since SRM obviously can't boot from SATA disks. Some people have reported success in using Compact-flash IDE type memory cards as a boot device, but I suspect that only works on newer Alphas. It doesn't work on my XP1000 as SRM does not recognise the device properly. Cheers Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
