Hi there group, I have a P 233MHZ machine running as rouer, I have attached a second drive for a storage but the IDE controller on the mother board is very old and slow (UDMA33). The disk is new and have 16MB cache, but the IDE is very slow and have very bad performace - about 1.3MB/s. I want to attach a PCI PATA IDE controller (I'm running 6.3) that will be rock solid. can you please recommend me a good card? Thank you! cheers, Anton. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:36:19PM +0200, Anton - Valqk wrote:> Hi there group, > I have a P 233MHZ machine running as rouer, > I have attached a second drive for a storage but the IDE controller on the > mother board is very old and slow (UDMA33). > The disk is new and have 16MB cache, but the IDE is very slow and have very > bad performace - about 1.3MB/s. > I want to attach a PCI PATA IDE controller (I'm running 6.3) that will be > rock solid. > can you please recommend me a good card?Many people have had good success (while within a limited budget) with PATA and SATA cards from Promise Technologies. For PATA: http://www.promise.com/product/pd_l3.asp?Product_Layer_ID=PRLA20060911012 For SATA: http://www.promise.com/product/pd_l3.asp?Product_Layer_ID=PRLA20060911010 Two things: 1) Their RAID controllers *also* do JBOD (non-RAID), which means you can use them as a standard non-RAID disks (they'll appear in FreeBSD as adX disks) 2) Their Ultra133 TX2 card works fine on 33MHz PCI bus machines; don't worry about the card being 66MHz, it will downthrottle correctly. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:36:19PM +0200, Anton - Valqk wrote:> Hi there group, > I have a P 233MHZ machine running as rouer, > I have attached a second drive for a storage but the IDE controller on the > mother board is very old and slow (UDMA33). > The disk is new and have 16MB cache, but the IDE is very slow and have very > bad performace - about 1.3MB/s. > I want to attach a PCI PATA IDE controller (I'm running 6.3) that will be > rock solid. > can you please recommend me a good card?I have had good experiences with the Promise Ultra100 TX2. The Promise Ultra133 TX2 should be even better, but I have no personal experience with it. (Apart from the slightly higher speed, the Ultra133 should be able to handle large disks out of the box, while the Ultra100 needed a firmware update to handle disks larger than 128GiB.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:06:48PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:> I have had good experiences with the Promise Ultra100 TX2. > The Promise Ultra133 TX2 should be even better, but I have no personal > experience with it. (Apart from the slightly higher speed, the Ultra133 > should be able to handle large disks out of the box, while the Ultra100 > needed a firmware update to handle disks larger than 128GiB.)My copy of Ultra100 TX2 handles such larger disks out of the box pretty well. Eugene Grosbein
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:29:46PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:06:48PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > I have had good experiences with the Promise Ultra100 TX2. > > The Promise Ultra133 TX2 should be even better, but I have no personal > > experience with it. (Apart from the slightly higher speed, the Ultra133 > > should be able to handle large disks out of the box, while the Ultra100 > > needed a firmware update to handle disks larger than 128GiB.) > > My copy of Ultra100 TX2 handles such larger disks out of the box pretty well.It is probably the case that older Ultra100-TX2 units needed the firmware update, while those manufactured at a later date shipped with the newer firmware already installed. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:04:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:> > > I have had good experiences with the Promise Ultra100 TX2. > > > The Promise Ultra133 TX2 should be even better, but I have no personal > > > experience with it. (Apart from the slightly higher speed, the Ultra133 > > > should be able to handle large disks out of the box, while the Ultra100 > > > needed a firmware update to handle disks larger than 128GiB.) > > > > My copy of Ultra100 TX2 handles such larger disks out of the box pretty well. > It is probably the case that older Ultra100-TX2 units needed the firmware > update, while those manufactured at a later date shipped with the newer > firmware already installed.Yes :-) My controlled had firmware version newer that on-site one when it came. Eugene Grosbein