[Novalug] Hard Drives

Michael Hans mhans@oqtol.com
Mon Feb 15 18:38:08 EST 2010


You crack me up ;), if it sucks so bad by all means please move to a
OS that will fullfill your requirements OR fix the part that 'sucks'.
I tire of this attitude

Michael

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On Feb 15, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Alan Grimes <agrimes@speakeasy.net> wrote:

> Peter Larsen wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:32 -0500, Dan Arico wrote:
>>> I stopped at Microcenter yesterday to pick up a replacement drive.
>>> Two things
>>> I noted:
>>>
>>> 1. Prices continue to drop.
>>> 2. The only drives available were SATA and laptop drives. There
>>> were no EIDE
>>> drives to be had.
>>>
>>> Is my impression that the SATA interface is taking over correct?
>>
>> That's very old news. I did however pick up 2 PATA drives at
>> Microcenter
>> 2 weeks ago. They're available, but compared to SATA drives 4x
>> times as
>> expensive. I also saw one EIDE drive too. SATA is new new "IDE"
>> drive.
>> They're simpler chip-wise and can therefore be made much smaller.
>
> I am currently using a SATA adapter to drive my data disk. (my
> previous
> data disk died when I moved a year and a half ago). It took a little
> fiddling to get the kernel drivers to work but all things
> considered, it
> has been remarkably reliable for linux. Hell, I can even boot my
> machine
> off the drive. (I had it accidentally configured to do just that
> when I
> first installed it, oops.).
>
> I'm not completely happy with my controller, could use more internal
> ports and such (only has one internal and one external).
>
> My motherboard is a real beast, has two 66mhz 64bit slots. It has the
> capacity for a vast amount of IO and/or auxilary processing that I'm
> just not using... =P Then again, I'm barely seeing 1/10th of this
> machine's potential because linux sucks so bad. =(
>
> --
> DO NOT USE OBAMACARE.
> DO NOT BUY OBAMACARE.
> Powers are not rights.
>
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