Subject: Re: Multia & IDE
From: Michael Neuffer (neuffer@ns.itserv-gmbh.com)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 23:09:54 PDT
Quoting Jay Estabrook (Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com):
> > I still use my good old Multia as my primary server at home
> > and added a 12GB IDE disk some time ago to it to replace the old
> > 0.5GB internal SCSI disk that was having problems.
> >
> > The new disk works fine, it is just that the disk transfers are horribly
> > slow and basically eats up all of the few CPU cycles that the poor machine
> > has while doing IO to the IDE disk......
>
> It's possible that somebody hacked something up, but I kinda doubt it.
> You could look at the chip involved (I think it's an INTEL SuperIO chip,
> or perhaps the ISA bridge itself), and see what it's capable of, then
> check the IDE driver docs in the kernels.
If I remember correctly it is in the ISA bridge. I'll take a
closer look at it.
> Most folks found a way to hook up an external SCSI box, which, even
> though only FAST-10, was a whole lot better than the IDE...
I also have a pair of 9GB SCSI drives attached to it, but still
the internal disk is the one where I keep the core of the OS.
It is just the idea of using this incredibly neat and compact
package as a server.
Mike
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