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

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "CB" == Chris Black <cblack at eragen.com> writes:

CB> Have you or anyone used the onboard IDE on these motherboards?

I have, on a SuperMicro 370DLE.  The IDE is OK, but not great.

XYX:lserv00:~> s hdparm -tT /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.74 seconds =172.97 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.83 seconds = 22.61 MB/sec

XYX:lserv00:~> cat /proc/ide/hda/model 
IBM-DTLA-307020

It's a mostly-meaningless benchmark, but I get 34MB/sec out of the same
disk hanging off of the Promise controller built into the Asus A7V133.  The
OSB4 really doesn't do IDE very well.  If you really need the disk
bandwidth but don't want to shell out for SCSI, consider getting a cheap
(<$40) PCI Promise IDE controller and hanging your disks there.

 - J<