From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Cox Subject: Which SATA Combos To Consider? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:42:44 -0500 Message-ID: <1108669364.3604.80.camel@vom> References: <4212CBD6.7020703@wasp.net.au> <42132803.2080701@wasp.net.au> <4213821D.1030203@pobox.com> <4213B2F8.2070800@wasp.net.au> <20050216154033.I10699@florence.linkmargin.com> <4213CD9E.9040703@pobox.com> <20050216174954.K10699@florence.linkmargin.com> <4213DE38.70309@pobox.com> <20050216182040.L10699@florence.linkmargin.com> <421426DB.2000308@pobox.com> <20050217085934.M10699@florence.linkmargin.com> <4214ECE9.7070502@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from webmail.ecweb.com ([209.168.254.136]:63968 "EHLO webmail.ecweb.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261187AbVBQTnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:43:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4214ECE9.7070502@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Linux IDE List I've been mostly lurking here for awhile now, just seeing how things are going. I've seen various drives on a blacklist, and various controllers that do this or that well, but have problems doing foo. There also seem to have been a Strange Interaction as well, but that's a fuzzy memory at best. So, my question is: if YOU were to purchase an SATA setup brand new, what would you specify? Which drives, motherboards, and PCI cards would you recommend that just work? I don't even mean "work like a Mercedes", by which I mean almost perfection. I mean like a Chevy. I don't mind a little tinkering to get it right, but I want my disk subsystem to be solid thereafter! I've got important stuff here! Like my wife's backup; NEVER lose your wife's backup (shudder)! If SATA isn't ready for consumerdom, I'd like to know that too. This just isn't for Jeff and Bart either. I'd like to hear success stories from those whose systems just hum along all the time! Thanks in advance! -- Daniel S. Cox Internet Commerce Corporation