Re: Innovision EIO DM-8301H/R SATA cards...

[Mark Watts]

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> Mark Watts wrote:
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> > My local supplier has started doing some SATA cards....
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> > http://www.ivmm.com/eio/products_sata_pci_host.html
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> > The chip on the board i the screenshot looks vaguely like a Silicon Image
> > chip - - am I correct in thinking that these are supported in linux?
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> If they are Silicon Image, yes, they are supported.

Great stuff - can someone confirm whether I still need to do the folloing for 
the latest 2.4.22 kernels in order to get good performance?

# hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdX
# echo "max_kb_per_request:15" > /proc/.ide/hdX/settings

Cheers,

Mark.

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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ TIM
St Andrews Road, Malvern
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