John,<br><br>As with many things I guess your mileage may vary. I picked this chipset because it seemed as well supported as anything on linux when I purchased them. That was proably at least a year to a year and a half ago, things have probably changed alot as far as linux and SATA support goes since then. For the money though I don't see how you can go too far wrong. FWIW I have 2 of these each with 3 250GB Seagate drives attached set up as 5 actives in a RAID 5 with a hot spare, it's been online for at least a year and has so far been bulletproof. I just updated from FC4 to FC5 and will probably move it to FC6 soon. FC5 and maybe FC6 has an annoying problem with properly putting the raid driver in the initrd image after
2.6.18 at the moment, so I may hang back on the FC6 update.<br><br>Todd<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Drescher</b> <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 3/7/07, Todd French <<a href="mailto:toddfrench1@gmail.com">toddfrench1@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> Sorry, hit send by accident somehow, anyway.<br>><br>> Not sure about the 1TB drives but as far as 4 port SATA cards go, I have a<br>> couple cheapie cards based on the Silicon Image 3114, that have been working
<br>> just fine with a 6 disk RAID 5 array on my fedora fileserver. I'm pretty<br>> sure that this is the card:<br>> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124020">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124020
</a><br>> Hope this helps,<br>><br>I have a few machines with these chips on the mobo and a few of these<br>cards and I have had mixed results. On some machines I get lots of ata<br>error messages in my message log when for drives connected to these
<br>controllers. Also I had one server not work with a mobo 3114 and a<br>pci version.<br><br>John<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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