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[Forum] Freescale donates 10 PegasosPPC machines to Gentoo developersANN.lu
Posted on 11-Oct-2004 10:58 GMT by MrZammler24 comments
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Check this out: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20041011-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1.

While they mention that MOS is pre-installed there, I'm assuming they'll not be concentrating their efforts on MOS stuff. (that's to be expected of course from a linux distro). So, while it is nice that Amiga-ish hardware finds it's way to people outside of the community, do you think that this is of any good for the Amiga platform in general? Or is it a sign that Amiga-like OSes just doesnt cut it for the 21st century?
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Freescale donates 10 PegasosPPC machines to Gentoo developers : Comment 23 of 24ANN.lu
Posted by Olegil on 12-Oct-2004 10:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (Damien):
But if you have a 200$ card with only PARTIAL hardware raid (mine has memory and XOR engine, but needs to have some glue logic in software) and the fucking Linux driver insists on treating the raid as 4 separate disks you need to run software raid on, you would want proper raid support in the OS.

The Windows driver for the same card is blindingly fast and looks to the user like a proper RAID card (it supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10), but since dual-booting is impossible (software raid in Linux, hardware raid in Windows), actually using the card in Linux is a complete waste of money. Money I have unfortunately spent because the card looked promising.

(I'm talking about the 4-channel SATA controller Promise FastTrak SX4. Costs about half of a proper RAID controller, gets almost the same throughput in Windows, sucks rats ass through garden hoses in Linux.)
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