[mythtv-users] I think my motherboard isbroken.Anyrecommendations for a new one exclusively for MythTV use

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 20:12 US/Pacific, mediaserver wrote:

> Some motherboard ATA chipsets don't support hard drives greater than 
> 137GB
> in size and exhibit problems best described as "weird" when so 
> attached.
> You may want to consult your motherboard manufacturer for any insight 
> they
> are able to share on the use of Large hard drives.   This type of 
> behavior
> may be known and there may be a workaround.    Maxtor, recognizing the
> problem that large hard drives pose to some ATA interfaces, ships ATA 
> PCI
> controllers with some of their larger hard drives which have chipset 
> support
> for large hard drives.   I have no idea on the level of official (or
> unofficial) LINUX support for these Maxtor-sourced ATA controllers.

Those are typically Promise cards with a Maxtor sticker thrown on top. 
I've got a few of them myself. All the ATA/100 and ATA/133 PCI cards 
I've got work flawlessly under Linux without needing any special 
drivers. They are just seen as additional ATA drives, and the drives 
show up as /dev/hd[e-h] for the first one, /dev/hd[i-l] for the second, 
etc., assuming you have two onboard connectors. I've got a machine with 
3 of these cards in it (hooked to 5x120GB WD 8MB cache drives, software 
RAID-5'd :) running Red Hat Linux 9.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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