Luke Lonergan wrote:
> Joshua,
>
> On 7/21/05 7:53 PM, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>>Well I know that isn't true at least not with ANY of the Dells my
>>customers have purchased in the last 18 months. They are still really,
>>really slow.
>
>
> That's too bad, can you cite some model numbers? SCSI?
Yeah I will get them and post, but yes they are all SCSI.
>
>
>>I have great success with Silicon Image as long as I am running them
>>with Linux software RAID. The LSI controllers are also really nice.
>
>
> That's good to hear, I gave up on Silicon Image controllers on Linux about 1
> year ago, which kernel are you using with success?
Any of the 2.6 kernels. ALso the laster 2.4 (+22 I believe) support it
pretty well as well.
Silicon Image
> controllers are the most popular, so it's important to see them supported
> well, though I'd rather see more SATA headers than 2 off of the built-in
> chipsets.
>
> - Luke
>
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