From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14989d6e050813021379e34f91@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:13:57 +0200 From: Christian Walther To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] Any recommendation for an ATA 133 PCI-Controller? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77bee5b0-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi 9Fans, I recently purchased a 200GB IDE-Drive that I would like to use in a Plan 9 file server. A collegue gave me two Pentium 3/500 boxes I would like to install Plan 9 on, one acting as a auth server, the other as the file server. Naturally these machines aren't able to deal with such a big Hard Disk, so I'm in need of an ATA 133 PCI-Controller, that is actually supported by Plan 9. Reading the Wiki I learned that some chipsets are supported including DMA, but these are ATA 66 at best. The wiki also states that many other chipsets without DMA. This doesn't bother me that much. because I doubt that DMA will increase the overall performance that much. What makes me wonder what card to choose is the "Plan 9 on Compaq AP550"-Thread, in which is stated that most IDE-RAID Controllers won't work. Well, I don't really need such a Controller, I'll be perfectly happy with a standard ATA133 Controller that'll allow me to attach four disks to it. Additionally any kind of chipset support doesn't necessarily mean that every card with such a chipset is supported. So I would be happy if someone could point me to a brand or specific modell that's known to work with Plan 9, or some chipsets I should look out for. Bye, Christian Walther