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

[David Bronaugh]

Paul Nienaber wrote:
> 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.
Just a recommendation on that... put / on RAID1. Then the BIOS can boot 
from it without trouble, and you have redundancy. Swap on RAID1 or 
RAID10 isn't a bad idea either.

After the kernel is loaded, with mdraid it doesn't matter what order 
disks are detected in, since they're all going into a big RAID set anyhow.

David