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

[Paul Nienaber]

As far as I am aware, any of the nVidia stuff works, period.

Silicon Image is somewhat of an issue, and I'm not sure if any of this 
has to do with the controller's BIOS (which is usually embedded as part 
of the motherboard's BIOS), but typically it varies based on the whole 
pile of different chips they make.  I've had my Sil3114 working 
cooperatively for quite a while now (on an amd64 platform, see Chris' 
comment below).  For quite a while, only 2 or 3 ports of the 3114 chips 
worked, but since about 2.6.8 or something, they've been supported properly.

I'm curious as to whether the two nVidia controllers on the motherboard 
that's [supposed to be] on its way to me will always be detected in the 
same order.  I'm assuming so.  I'll be doing what David is doing, with 
drives spread across more than one controller (I'm assuming he's doing 
this) w/ mdraid RAID5.

~p

David Bronaugh wrote:
> 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
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