Ooo, ooo. I've not installed it yet but I saw it in Maplins for 20 quid so thought I might give it a go especially considering Maplins generous unwanted item return guarentee (though I have a sneaking suspicion that this might be excluded).
It's not a promise so I expect to be shouted at by RRLedford , but it does come with software to run raid...not that I've enough drive space/spare drives to do it at the moment.
The card is a CMD technologies card based on a Silicon Images (a trading name of CMD?) 0649 chip. I supports ATA 100 (I think there is a 133 version available but I don't need it) & it will get me off the HPt at last. Initial searches suggest that it may be supported in the Linux kernel (what version though I'm not sure ) & it comes with it's own drivers & raid software for win2k. I don't think there is any software at the moment that allows raid in linux so it's just as well I shalln't be using it.
I shall install tomorrow morning & see whether everything works & whether the scores improve in the Performance Test software I benchedmarked my current setup with earlier today.
I shall post the results of my endevours in the near future.
I gotta ATA100 raid card
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Well I got it installed without too many problems. It wouldn't work in Pci slot 4 because it was having a bit of a tiff with the SBLive in PCI 5. Moved it to the empty 3 slot & everything appears to be hunky dory. Comparisons of scores show a 50% increase in sequential read & write functions but only a slight increase in random seek, read & rewrite.
Decided to see if I could push the FSB any further than the 82MHz that I was currently on and seem to have done something wierd to my win2k installation. It didn't work at 93MHz (600MHz on the cele's) I got a "winnt/SYSTEM is corrupt" message on the black part of the 2k boot screen so I dropped it back to 66 & now it'll go through the black bit & then reboot.
Plus it's no longer recognising the DVD drive that I put on the HPT.
Booting into linux things are working OK. I'm assuming there is either some generic support for PCI cards or I somehow managed to install drivers/kernal modules for the controller when I first installed linux as it works. Seems a bit slow & sluggish though. Managed to completely lock up my machine on reboot I force a file system check & then harddrake detects the fact that I've got a USB chip & configures that. So now I have no DVD drive but I do have for the 1st time access to my usb printer.
Wonder if I can get it all to work at once Anyone know anything about linux support for these sorts of cards? I've not found anything yet but I'm still looking.
Decided to see if I could push the FSB any further than the 82MHz that I was currently on and seem to have done something wierd to my win2k installation. It didn't work at 93MHz (600MHz on the cele's) I got a "winnt/SYSTEM is corrupt" message on the black part of the 2k boot screen so I dropped it back to 66 & now it'll go through the black bit & then reboot.
Plus it's no longer recognising the DVD drive that I put on the HPT.
Booting into linux things are working OK. I'm assuming there is either some generic support for PCI cards or I somehow managed to install drivers/kernal modules for the controller when I first installed linux as it works. Seems a bit slow & sluggish though. Managed to completely lock up my machine on reboot I force a file system check & then harddrake detects the fact that I've got a USB chip & configures that. So now I have no DVD drive but I do have for the 1st time access to my usb printer.
Wonder if I can get it all to work at once Anyone know anything about linux support for these sorts of cards? I've not found anything yet but I'm still looking.