Re: [Lilux-help] SATA Controller

I've lately been thinking about adding a PCI (< 2.2) SATA Controller to one of my current machines (5 year old Athlon 800 on a VIA KT133 board), for future use as a fileserver (relegated to some place where the noise won't disturb anyone). Of course I'd add in something like 2-4 large (> 200GB apiece) SATA disks for that task. The boot drive would remain on the current SCSI-based setup, so there won't be any issues with bootability from that new drive system. Obviously, that thing must be able to work with Linux, using free drivers. I don't necessarily need RAID functionality, as that can be covered by software RAID. I *do* want that tagged command queueing functionality, which is still only optional in SATA (unlike SCSI), but which makes all the difference in performance for concurrent access to the disks. So, can anyone recommend any specific products, preferrably not overly expensive, but reliable ones? TIA, Eric P.S. No, I'm not going to shell out big ¤¤¤ on huge SCSI drives ;-) _______________________________________________ Lilux-help mailing list Lilux-help(a)lilux.lu http://lilux.lu/mailman/listinfo/lilux-help