Serial ATA

[Matthew Carpenter]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>Anyone out here used SATA on Linux, yet? If so, are there controllers
>you can recommend or controllers to avoid? The controllers seem reasonably
>priced and the speeds are pretty impressive.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kurt
>  
>
Heard great things about the Promise controllers.  I've used the 
HighPoint controllers with pretty good success.  I only found that it 
worked better if I installed Linux on one drive then created a mirror 
afterwards...  which could have been a SuSE thing.  Takes longer for 
GRUB to load.


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