I wanted a promise card for the server, but all I could find at the shops were SIIG. I googled and found that SIIG was supported by the unified driver in 2.4. I tested it in my g4 at home and it read cds fine and mounted ISOs nice; but when I put it in the server it timed out doing a partition scan on the attached hard disk on boot up.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > On 14 Mar, this message from jeramy b smith echoed through cyberspace: > > The biggest problem is that most pmac IDE controllers perform poorly in > > Linux. I am not sure if this is the fault of our drivers or the Apple > > hardware or both but swapping 20MB of memory on the fly gives you a real > > performance hit. (Much more so than doing it on an x86 with a well > > supported ata66 card). > > Well, my experience is that Apple will often use medium-to-low > performance parts (disks mostly), except maybe in top-of-the-line > machines. > > The same holds true for their integrated SCSI controllers, that were > _always_ the slowest around. Don't know for the IDE controllers, > though... > > But than again, if you want a high-performance low-cost hard disk > system, look at things like the Promise Ultra/66 card (two Ata/66 buses > on one PCI card) that works perfectly well under Linux on the PPC. If > you have enough free PCI slots, you can add many of them ;-) > > Michel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. > 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. > L-1710 Luxembourg | > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -jeramy b smith "Linux is Fun!" -Linus Torvalds <begin netscape webmail spam> __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
