On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Ray Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I get 15 to/from (I don't remember which) Linux LVM to a USB disk. It does > seem to saturate there. I assume due to interrupt service time between > transfers. I appreciate the contention for the IDE, but in a 3MB/Sec > system, I don't think that it is my bottleneck, much less in a > 100KByte/second system. Do you disagree? > > I *have* a PCI add on card, which is unplugged to make the system > dead-simple until I figure out why it does not function! > > As a side note, most such controllers report themselves as a RAID card or > some such, and Solaris will refuse to talk to them! The only one I could > find that would work was an IT8212 with an out of production flashchip that > ITE supported an alternate BIOS for. I went through 3 or 4 different ones > before finding it! You seem to say it is easy to buy a PCI add-in and have > it work under Solaris - what card are you thinking of, and where did you > find it? >
Every one of the promise IDE (non-raid) cards work just fine. Worst case scenario you have to add the device id for the driver to load properly. --Tim
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