Thanks for that. I can see you've done your homework on correct disk usage. Regards Alan

-----Original Message----- From: Mark Horton [mailto:mark@nostromo.net] Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:30 AM To: Alan Gray Cc: Hulslander, Ryan; suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] AMD Athlon 64 Linux hardware sanity check (not w ith SATA!)

Alan Gray wrote:

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Hi everyone,

I'm just looking on 3ware.com now, and I cannot see any driver for for Suse 9.0.

http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp?code=7&id=7.7.0&soft type=Driver&releasenotes=&os=Linux

Did you have to get special drivers or does 9.0 support it out of the box?

The suse 9 install automatically recoginzed the 3ware sata controller and loaded the proper driver. I bought the 3ware because someone told me they had good linux support and so far its performed without a problem.

I gave up on SATA(N) a while back because of all the woes and went back to $C$I. If the 8506-4LP does work, I could use the xtra disk space.

I have IDE, SATA and SCSI on the same system and it works without a hitch. I have the OS on the IDE drive for simplicity. The sata array is for bulk storage and the scsi array is for the database. Mark