From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 31 19:16:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD5637B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:16:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from helios.earthmagic.org (helios.earthmagic.org [198.78.66.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737B443F85 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lonewolf@earthmagic.org) Received: (qmail 89034 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 03:16:48 -0000 Received: from ppp887.vic.padsl.internode.on.net (HELO Lara.earthmagic.org) (eo-lonewolf@150.101.216.118) by helios.earthmagic.org with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 03:16:48 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030201140556.02a7e690@helios.earthmagic.org> X-Sender: eo-lonewolf@helios.earthmagic.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 14:15:51 +1100 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: "J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson" Subject: Re: ata33 vs others? In-Reply-To: <200301311856.59367.timothy@voidnet.com> References: <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 18:56 31/01/2003 -0600, Eric Timme wrote: >I was just wondering if the performance difference on a p2-400 would warrant >me trying to find a controller card that can handle ata100/133, Based on personal experience, I would say nay. It depends on what you are running on the box though - if you have something very disk intensive, then it could be worth it, seeing as an IDE controller is quite cheap these days. >and if so, how hard it'd be to get the motherboard to utilize harddrives >connected up to said controller card? This is normally the easy bit. If you don't want to boot off a drive connected to this controller you don't have to do anything in the BIOS. If you want to boot off this controller, simply change the boot order/device to attempt "External" or "SCSI" first. I think Abit refers to it as "External", but otherwise the "SCSI" option should work well (unless of course there's an onboard SCSI controller on the motherboard). One small word of caution though, if you move a boot drive to the new controller, you will have an... interesting.. time with updating your /etc/fstab and the disklabel to get it to mount root from the right drive and upgrade the mount to r/w. My advice would probably be to boot once with the new controller installed but the drive on the old controller, see what number the new controller shows up as, update the fstab, shutdown, move disk to new controller, boot (explicitly telling it the where to mount root from), and then updating the disklabel after that. I think that should give the desired result in the least amount of time. I didn't do it that way... and it took me considerably longer =) Cheers, /Johny #-----------------------------------# . Johny Mattsson / \__/\ lonewolf@earthmagic.org /' , : http://www.earthmagic.org ; ( o o irc.sorcery.net:9000 as LoneWolf / , ~. \ System Designer / Support Engineer / ( `- ..__" #-----------------------------------# ' /' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message