H.D. install problem -
Roger Heflin wrote:
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
The new drive is spec'd for 3 gb/s, not gB/s as I thought I read. The
ad people are playing the numbers game again.
However I plan on using the card for the old Windows drive which gets
little use anyway.
Thanks.
Bob
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