[CentOS] How to select a motherboard -- CPU architectures and chipsets
Bryan J. Smith
thebs413 at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 15 17:29:17 UTC 2005
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote:
> Ok, thank you for your explanation. I guess that is why we
> had to get one particular rise from one particular
> manufacturer.
Yep.
> I am sorry Bryan but we seem to have some misunderstanding.
> 3ware is on Intel 7500 motherboards.
Really? You can get an Intel E7500 chipset with 3Ware?
Cool! Which models?
> The VIA issue is something else entirely.
Oh, I know.
> Tell that to the one who picked the board.
Oh, I've seen all sorts of such "selections" in my time.
> Yes :)
Seems like the typo bug is going around. ;->
[ Okay, I admit, I hold the record -- by a wide margin ]
> Nforce4 Ultra and above support command queueing according
> to them.
They wish. ;->
Then again, the ATA "controller" is rather "dumb" -- the NCQ
is on the IDE of the end-device. It's not like SCSI where
there's an intelligent, hardware host.
The AHCI is supposed to be the software/host equivalent of
controlling up to 32 ATA devices with commands, etc... But I
haven't seen much work well in that regard on even Windows.
> Yes...where possible. Their SATA/NCQ implementation
> apparently does not allow them to provide specs or
something.
Really? Hmmm, I thought the libata guys were pretty happy
with them. I could be wrong, as it's been 2nd hand
commentary.
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