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

[Darin W. Smith]

Wow.  I must be blind.  I read right over that, as well as the note "(2 for 
RAID)" on the description of the 4 IDE channels.

The "platinum" version looks cool.  I might consider that if I went all out 
and got the neat Lian Li aquarium case I saw on ThinkGeek yesterday. ;)

D!

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:04:32 -0500, Paul Drew <solarcurve at msn.com> wrote:

> 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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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"