[NTLUG:Discuss] (somewhat OT) AMD mobo/chipset recommendations?

[Paul Drew]

Howdy,
Here are the Dragon's on the Soyo site, and it does say it has raid.

"Optional Serial ATA / Embedded Hipoint IDE-RAID chip, providing ATA-133 
IDE-RAID 0,1,and 0+1"

http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=185
http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=176

I am glad you took a look at them even if you don't get them. :)

Paul Drew

>From: "Darin W. Smith" <darin_ext at darinsmith.net>
>Reply-To: darin_ext at darinsmith.net, NTLUG Discussion List 
><discuss at ntlug.org>
>To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] (somewhat OT) AMD mobo/chipset 
>recommendations?
>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:49:06 -0500
>
>On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:23:37 -0500, Paul Drew <solarcurve at msn.com> wrote:
>
>>Howdy,
>>I am an AMD guy myself, and I have been using Soyo products for a few 
>>years now. I am VERY VERY happy with my Dragon boards. I have an older 
>>Dragon Plus! board which is 266mhz fsb. The newest version they sell has 
>>everything you are looking for including the onboard raid. I have had 0 
>>issues installing Mandrake, and Redhat on them including messing around 
>>with the raid functions with no issues encountered.
>>
>
>Good call.  The Dragon Ultra fits my needs well.  I see their website says 
>it has four
>IDE channels, but I saw no mention of RAID.  I'm mainly just interested in 
>mirroring, since drives
>are so cheap.  I could do that through software RAID (and have done it 
>before), but I
>was thinking if it had hardware, then the kernel would only have to send 
>the data out to the bus once.
>
>It looks like their serial ATA support is in the form of a parallel to 
>serial riser card that
>comes out of the regular IDE connector.  I wonder if that supports more 
>than two devices on a channel?
>
>This uses the KT400 chipset.  Is that one any better at I/O than the older 
>VIA chipsets?  I think my
>current board has a KT333 chipset, and it had terrible problems ripping 
>audio CD's.  It just couldn't do
>it without inserting LOTS of jitter.  Popping in a PCI CMD640-based card to 
>run my CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives
>was the only way I could do it.  I do like to archive my music CDs as Ogg- 
>Vorbis.
>
>It looks like with this one that I could go all the way up to an Athlon XP 
>3000+ if I wanted.
>
>This one will definitely be on my short list.
>
>--
>D!
>Darin W. Smith
>AIM: JediGrover
>"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite 
>you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." --Mark 
>Twain "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
>
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