64bit/66MHz PCI mobos (Intel STL2, Asus CUR-DLS)

W Bauske wsb at paralleldata.com
Wed May 23 11:39:51 PDT 2001


Steffen Persvold wrote:
> 
> Chris Black wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:13:33PM +0200, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> > > Chris Black wrote:
> > > >
> > > > We have been looking into motherboards that provide 64-bit 66MHz
> > > > PCI slots and haven't had much luck. We are now evaluating the
> > [stuff deleted]
> > >
> > > The SuperMicro (http://www.supermicro.com) 370DE{6,R} cards are actually
> > > quite nice. They both have onboard SCSI-3.
> > >
> > > The SuperMicro 370DL{3,E,R} are a cheaper variant (LE chipset) and the
> > > 370DLE is without SCSI.
> > >
> > > I haven't checked too much, but I believe all of these boards are
> > > cheaper than both the Intel and the ASUS boards.
> >
> > Have you or anyone used the onboard IDE on these motherboards?
> > The person working with the Intel serverworks board seems to be
> > having trouble getting IDE working in ultradma mode. Also, do
> > any of these boards have onboard video/ethernet?
> >
> I'm sorry but I haven't used IDE on these mobos for disks, only CDROM.
> As for onboard VGA/ethernet, the 370DER has an onboard ATI Rage XL 8MB
> card and  dual Intel 82557 ethernet controllers. The 370DE6 has an AGP
> slot and a onboard 82557 ethernet controller.
> 

I have a 370DLE that does:

[root at wsb50 /root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.70 seconds =182.86 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.50 seconds = 18.29 MB/sec

Wes




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