[Discuss] trying to get quotes on a server.....

[David Bronaugh]

Chris Kloosterman wrote:
> Yes, I did mean that SATA support is hit and miss.  In the past few 
> months, I have had issues with:
>
> 1) The SATA2 controller (supposedly AHCI) on the Asus K8N-VM
> 2) The SATA2 controller (supposedly AHCI) on the Asrock 939DUAL-SATA2
> 3) The SATA controller on the Tyan Thunder K8SR (Sil 3114) (works in 
> Debian AMD64, not in Debian 32-bit)
>
> I have had success with:
>
> 1) Nvidia SATA
> 2) 3ware SATA
> 3) ULI SATA1 (on the Asrock 939DUAL-SATA2
>
> So yes, it's hit and miss unless you want to buy a $400+ 3ware SATA 
> controller.  Several of the high end Supermicro Aplus servers come 
> with the Serverworks/Broadcom chipset that didn't work (until kernel 
> 2.6.13).  The AHCI SATA2 support for the Asrock motherboard was 
> apparently added in 2.6.16.  Doesn't help if you're running a stable 
> Debian box though!
>
> Chris
Asus A8N5X, nVidia CK804 SATA and IDE; Debian testing, Linux 2.6.15.1, 6 
HDs in RAID5. No issues; and I've beaten on it.

David Bronaugh