[mythtv-users] I think my motherboard isbroken.Anyrecommendations for a new one exclusively for MythTV use

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 20:30 US/Pacific, cmisip wrote:

> what power supply wattage do you have to power all those drives?

A fairly expensive 460W NMB one. One of like only two power supplies 
that works with the motherboard (Tyan Thunder K7). It's not a standard 
ATX power supply. Anyhow, there isn't a whole lot in the machine 
besides the motherboard, drives and controllers. It's got video and 
dual NICs onboard, and functions a dedicated server, so real need for 
any other devices. Not sure how it would hold up if there were more 
stuff in there, like say a high-powered video card.

--Jarod

> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 00:33, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>> On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 22:22 US/Pacific, Joe Votour wrote:
>>
>>> Note that they show up as extra drives, if you have the correct 
>>> module compiled.  :)  These cards require the Promise IDE driver.
>>
>> I never had to compile anything for them. They were supported by a 
>> stock Red Hat Linux 9 install. With other distros, ymmv, but with Red 
>> Hat, they are supported out of the box (I've also got a Red Hat Linux 
>> 7.3 box with one in it, never had to compile anything, so Red Hat 
>> supports them out of the box at least that far back).
>>
>> --Jarod
>>
>>
>>> --- "Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 20:12 US/Pacific,
>>>> mediaserver wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Maxtor, recognizing the problem that large hard drives pose to 
>>>>> some ATA interfaces, ships ATA PCI controllers with some of their 
>>>>> larger hard drives which have chipset support for large hard 
>>>>> drives.   I have no idea on the level of official (or unofficial) 
>>>>> LINUX support for these Maxtor-sourced ATA controllers.
>>>>
>>>> Those are typically Promise cards with a Maxtor sticker thrown on 
>>>> top. I've got a few of them myself. All the ATA/100 and ATA/133 PCI 
>>>> cards I've got work flawlessly under Linux without needing any 
>>>> special drivers. They are just seen as additional ATA drives, and 
>>>> the drives show up as /dev/hd[e-h] for the first one, /dev/hd[i-l] 
>>>> for the second, etc., assuming you have two onboard connectors. >>>> I've
>>>> got a machine with 3 of these cards in it (hooked to 5x120GB WD 8MB 
>>>> cache drives, software
>>>> RAID-5'd :) running Red Hat Linux 9.
>>>> --Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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