Using controller cards, firewire interface

cleanbluesky · Post by **cleanbluesky** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:48 am

Hi

I am thinking of using a f/wire interface or PCI controller card to add a 10,000rpm SATA drive to my comp. I have 2 questions

1) Can I boot from a f.wire or controller card drive?

2) Will they hog my PCI bandwidth too much?

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:14 am

1) You cannot boot from it, it has to be detected by the OS before it can be adressed...

2) My firewire network and drives haven't caused any PCI problems - Maybe that varies on different setups though, if it's not already too sensitive, but I haven't seen any reports from it.
As for the PCI latency, my Firewire controller sits at 48 by default, that's not likely to cause interrupt problems like some benchmark optimised network card models which block the PCI bus for longer times.

cleanbluesky · Post by **cleanbluesky** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:42 am

I think that you can boot off a controller card, perhaps not f/wire.
Am about to buy two drives, one 160gb ATA/133 for audio storage and perhaps an SATA Rsptor for boot so that everything works a lot faster. I have seen bootable controller cards for SATA, my only concern now is that the PCI bandwidth will get raped.

arela · Post by **arela** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:10 am

hi
Yes i think you culd boot from a pci controller card, it should work as if it was "buildt in" to your motherboard.

Don't think there is usb/firewire disc's which from you can boot (yet?

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My daw has only SATA disc's - works great.

cleanbluesky · Post by **cleanbluesky** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:42 am

Some Mobos support booting from USB device. If your mobo only support SATA then can u use ATA/133 drives?