Any tips for getting Ubuntu 6.10 to recognize a couple of SATA drives I
will be putting in a system? I have a video editing workstation I am
putting together. Right now it has 3 IDE drives in it for WindowsXP,
Ubuntu 6.10 linux, and a FAT32 data drive. But I just ordered two SATA
drives that I will use for read/write of video data files I will be
editing. The SATA drives are 3 Gigabit/sec data transfer which will help
greatly, 400MB each, 7200rpm. I am worried that linux will have issues
recognizing SATA--anybody know how good/bad linux is with SATA? Anything I
could do in advance to help this go smoothly? I might even want to set up
the two SATA drives as a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array, undecided on that matter
(any thoughts on that also appreciated).

Realtime playback of video during editing requires massive cpu, gcpu, and
data throughput to drives, hence the setup. I also ordered a second nvidia
GeForce 7900GT to add to my one to create a SLI setup for dual graphics
cards to help with the rendering--I hope I can get linux to play nice with
the SLI setup.

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:16:06 -0600, Beowulf wrote:
> Any tips for getting Ubuntu 6.10 to recognize a couple of SATA drives I
> will be putting in a system?

Just figure out which driver needed to manage your SATA controller.
My 4379 Serial ATA Controller wants the sata_sil module.

Beowulf wrote:

> The SATA drives are 3 Gigabit/sec data transfer which will help
> greatly, 400MB each, 7200rpm. I am worried that linux will have issues
> recognizing SATA

Use lspci to check what chip-set your computer uses, this makes it easier to
guess which driver you need to use (can be that the driver is already loaded
automatically if you haven't disabled it in BIOS), to find out loaded modules,
use lsmod.

> anybody know how good/bad linux is with SATA?

The major chip-sets are supported, some strange unknwon companies could have
made their own chip-set which could be unsupported.


> Anything I
> could do in advance to help this go smoothly? I might even want to set up
> the two SATA drives as a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array, undecided on that matter
> (any thoughts on that also appreciated).

If you are after speed, then think of XFS as file system on RAID 0.


> Realtime playback of video during editing requires massive cpu, gcpu, and
> data throughput to drives, hence the setup. I also ordered a second nvidia
> GeForce 7900GT to add to my one to create a SLI setup for dual graphics
> cards to help with the rendering--I hope I can get linux to play nice with
> the SLI setup.

There are some issues here (or at least there was), check the README for the
nVidia driver you are using for information on issues with SLI and some hardware.


--

//Aho

Beowulf schreef:
> Any tips for getting Ubuntu 6.10 to recognize a couple of SATA drives I
> will be putting in a system? I have a video editing workstation I am
> putting together. Right now it has 3 IDE drives in it for WindowsXP,
> Ubuntu 6.10 linux, and a FAT32 data drive. But I just ordered two SATA
> drives that I will use for read/write of video data files I will be
> editing. The SATA drives are 3 Gigabit/sec data transfer which will help
> greatly, 400MB each, 7200rpm. I am worried that linux will have issues
> recognizing SATA--anybody know how good/bad linux is with SATA? Anything I
> could do in advance to help this go smoothly? I might even want to set up
> the two SATA drives as a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array, undecided on that matter
> (any thoughts on that also appreciated).
>
> Realtime playback of video during editing requires massive cpu, gcpu, and
> data throughput to drives, hence the setup. I also ordered a second nvidia
> GeForce 7900GT to add to my one to create a SLI setup for dual graphics
> cards to help with the rendering--I hope I can get linux to play nice with
> the SLI setup.
>
>
>
I have my linux installed on sata drives and it just works fine. I dont
know if raid 0 or 1 will work as well under linux, never try that before :P

On Jan 27, 10:14 am, Bit Twister <BitTwis...@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>..Just figure out which driver [is] needed to manage your SATA controller.

How is that done?

On 27 Jan 2007 13:57:51 -0800, Beowulf wrote:
> On Jan 27, 10:14 am, Bit Twister <BitTwis...@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>..Just figure out which driver [is] needed to manage your SATA controller.

Oh, yeah, you mentioned 3gb throughput. Here is something to read
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37254

First I'd try controller chip/interface board search engine search.

Next, boot a knoppix live cd and see which module it chooses.
If fails, try other sata modules not loaded in the default boot as arguments.

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:04:39 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

> Oh, yeah, you mentioned 3gb throughput. Here is something to read
> http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37254

Yeah, I really do not know what to believe. The Samsung SATA drive brags
of 3gb/s but I know that can not be the true throughput; but it should be
fast, at least above the 30Mb/s Adobe says I need for realtime playback of
high definition video files on a PC.

I am also going to have some fun experimenting with benchmarks of playback
and also rendering in both linux and MS-Windows, and on my existing IDE
drives and then the new SATA drives I am getting. It will be fun, e.g., to
clock rendering times of altering e.g. brightness and color tones with
Adobe Premiere Pro and then with linux's mencoder.

> Next, boot a knoppix live cd and see which module it chooses.
> If fails, try other sata modules not loaded in the default boot as arguments.

Good idea, thanks.