Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $30.00 | Rating: 5
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.8-1.521smp
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Distribution:
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Fedora Core 2
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I tried this card in a older celeron 500MHz box -- the card prevented the box from booting -- I think it has to do with PCI rev. mismatch between the card and the motherboard. The card works on a newer Athlon XP smp motherboard. The performance using sata_sil driver stinks. I read somewhere that it could be due to compatibilty issues between the sata chip on the card and the drives.
[root@mythtv firefox-installer]# /sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 928 MB in 2.00 seconds = 463.38 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 4.30 seconds = 476.57 kB/sec
Nate
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