On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:48:25PM -0500, Scot Jenkins wrote: > and it just worked. I'm almost certain a current Slackware (7.x and up) > would have not trouble seeing the Promise PCI controller. I've also had 0 problems with promise PCI IDE controllers, and they're well supported under linux. > I think you can buy these cards retail for about $20-25 at Microcenter, > but check http://www.pricewatch.com/ or other online pricing sites before > buying. Best Buy has them as well, last i checked. > > If you plan to put more then 4 drives in your server or you want RAID > capability, which you probably will with the bigger hard drives today, > you should investigate IDE RAID controllers. I can't speak to them but > I think others on the list have experience with them. Unfortunately, it's been nothing but bad experiences with the promise RAID controllers. Personally I prefer software RAID since you're not sitting at the POST screen waiting for it to rebuild. The performance is comparable with a cheap IDE RAID controller as well, with more support. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list