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

[Paul Nienaber]

David Bronaugh wrote:
> 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.
I would if I was running / off the same disks, but I'm running / (and 
/boot and swap) off a 36.7GB SCSI drive, which is probably more reliable 
than my RAID5 array... (and doesn't mind being swapped to, and I'm not 
buying a second one ;)

~p