From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 17:59:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037A137B401 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borg-cube.com (213-106.adsl3.netlojix.net [207.71.213.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6542243E75 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr@borg-cube.com) Received: from borg-cube.com (dburr@borg-cube.com [207.71.213.106]) by borg-cube.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8K0xLq1041393; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr@borg-cube.com) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:59:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr of Borg To: Jud Cc: ssahmed@pathcom.com, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Promise Ultra ATA 133 PCI card supported? In-Reply-To: <6295GCZXIGXWPMYXVRDBVTA6JI3YTRPO.3d8a7088@sparky> Message-ID: <20020919175731.N41377-100000@borg-cube.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jud wrote: J>But before you run out and buy a new card - do you have room for J>another drive on your current cable(s), or ? If so, you might try hooking J>up the new drive on the cable to see if it works, and only springing for J>the new card if it doesn't. Or you might think about buying a cable with J>additional connectors. Either way would be cheaper than a controller J>card (though of course an Ultra ATA 133 controller card is a nice thing J>to have:). I already have the Promise ATA133 card. It came bundled with an 80 GB ID drive which I bought for one of my other systems; I didn't have a use for it at the time, so I stuck it in my miscellaneous hardware drawer. I generally prefer to only run ONE hard drive per IDE chain. I find that it takes a significant performance hit when you're simultaneously accessing one drive that is master, and another that is slave, on the same controller. -- Donald Burr of Borg | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 \----------------------------- Phone: (805)563-0672 Present Day... Present Time! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message