Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264201AbTF0QPV (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:15:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264472AbTF0QPV (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:15:21 -0400 Received: from snowman.net ([66.93.83.236]:41221 "EHLO relay.snowman.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264201AbTF0QPR (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:15:17 -0400 From: nick@snowman.net Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:28:50 -0400 (EDT) To: Larry McVoy cc: Alan Cox , Vojtech Pavlik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down In-Reply-To: <20030627145727.GB18676@work.bitmover.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1570 Lines: 39 I've always had very good luck with 3ware hardware. As I understand it Serverworks officially says only to use their IDE for CDRom drives & similar. Nick On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:53:20AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Iau, 2003-06-26 at 22:21, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > Eek. Serverworks IDE. I don't think they ever got that bit of their > > > > chipset right. > > > > > > Hmm. I could shove in a promise card and put at least the repos on that, > > > would that be better? > > > > Serverworks OSB4 IDE had a few problems that we now deal with. > > Serverworks CSB5/CSB6 (Ie anything vaguely current) is great and hasn't > > had many problems at all. > > > > There are some small updates from Duncan in the 2.4.21 tree but nothing > > "wrong" has been fixed for quite some time. > > Is there a PCI EIDE card that you could suggest that would be ultra stable? > Or should I just toss this box and go build up another one? > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/