[wellylug] Computer System Vendor Wgtn

[nic]

I agree about avoiding the bleating edge: basically all I could get from PB Tech _was_ 
bleating edge. And it was software RAID I was using, but most distros I tried simply 
couldn't cope with the SATA drivers on the motherboard in any shape or form, but ones that 
did would often have problems when trying RAID. I never found why, just went for a distro 
that worked. And now I'll probably use PATA drives for the next boxes.

andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Quoting nic <nic at tymar.com>:
> 
>> pain in all sorts of places where sometimes even the latest version of a
>> distro doesn't support the SATA controller. I've got to the stage where 
>> I will probably avoid SATA for because of the problems with chipsets and 
>> drivers.
> But that kind of issue can commonly be avoided if you decide 
> not to buy the latest and greatest in "bleating edge" (yes, I
> typed it like that on purpose) hardware .... that said, what
> people advertise as SATA RAID commonly isn't anything actually
> implemented in hardware to begin with.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej
> 
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