Topic: PCI IDE ATA133 Controller Card on SME 6.x (non-RAID)

[kangkc]

I need to get a new server for SME 6.x. New hardware are mostly SATA based leaving 1 IDE which will be impossible for me to put in 2 IDE HDD for software RAID 1 configuration.

Can I get a PCI IDE ATA133 controller card (non-raid, just plain old IDE controller) to solve my problem? Do I need to install any device driver?

Another option is to get a 3ware IDE RAID card and implement hardware Raid.

Hardware I'm getting is the DELL PowerEdge SC430.

This will get me going till SME 7 is out of beta.

[Reinhold]

kangkc,

ANY plain IDE controller with onboard bios (!)
should work on SME 6 ...
- in practice UDMA100 is good enough (some HDs limit anyway)
- beware of the 120GB and 200GB size limits with older controller bios's

Go for something that's still in support like:
Promise Ultra (100, TX2 133) or in general anything with a chip that may be found on mainboards (ITE etc.).

BTW: I always thought you had only space for 2x3.5" HDs in that case anyway - r u dumping the SATA/SCSI ???

Regards
Reinhold

[kangkc]

Reinhold,
Thanks. Will start sourcing for the IDE controller.

No, I'm not dumping the SDATA drive, will use it for M$ box and wait for SME 7.0.