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[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:12:55PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, how about making your own with an FPGA?  If IDE can be added to an
> > FPGA PDP/8, it can't be that hard to make an IDE raid controller.  Just
> > have to be careful about hitting the limits (138gigs is it?) of IDE.
>
> oh, uhm, ahhhhh, there is a limit?

For a single IDE drive yes there is currently a limit.  I hear they're
working on an "Enhanced ATA" (or something like that) that will either
raise or eliminate the 138-and-some-odd gig limit.

> that sucks.  two 80G drives would hose that then if the limit is so
> low.

Not really.  The 138G (or so) limit is only in the IDE command set.  As
long as it's a recent release whatever OS you use the drives with should
pretty easily see more than that if you have (for example) a RAID5 of 80G
IDE disks.

> hmmmm, maybe it's time to rethink that.

Maybe

> although if anyone wants to take a stab at an FPGA i wouldn't
> complain. :)

If the card they come up with is cheap but don't suck like the Promise
FastTraks do I think they'll make a fortune just from the geeks buying the
things.


Phil