Re: X86-64

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Remco Barendse wrote:
>
>> The only waste of space is the Silicon Image raid controller (which only
>> cost me USD 10 extra) but it is the same type of 'raid' as the promise
>> controllers.
>
> Do you actually have some SATA disk connected to the Sil controller ?
> Does it happen to be a Hitachi disk ? I have some problem with a Tyan
> S2882 which also has a Sil3114 onboard and a 160Gb Hitachi disk, while
> a 120Gb Maxtor disk works fine, more details here:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=110381619607185&w=2

The problem wasn't with the disks, I couldn't get it to install. I do not 
want software raid for an array that will be booted off so I wanted 
hardware raid.

The Silicon Image controllers claim to be doing hardware raid when in 
fact, they are not (same as Promise).

When you run Tao install you will still see 4 separate disks attached to 
the controller instead of 1 array. I could complete the install but then 
the machine would not boot from the `array' no matter what configuration I 
tried.

Probably if you do not need to boot from the array you can very well use 
the SI controller, but I want my box to boot no matter what happens.

After this disappointment I did not try any benchmarking on it, I just 
disabled it (now I know why the SI raid option only costs USD 10 :) I 
guess I got what I paid for)

Best regards!
Remco