[Pc_Support] ServerWorks IIILE SuperMicro 370DLE mdma2?

[Derek Konigsberg]

> In all honesty, the ServerWorks ATA and select other peripherals are
> rather immature/low-featured.  ServerWorks excels at bridging
> peripheral busses/channels (so much so that all current Intel designs
> are licensed from them -- especially the ServerWorks designed
> E7200/7500 series), but they leave much to be desired in peripherals
> before their Intel cross-licensing agreement.
> 
> Hence why I use off-chipset controllers for fixed disk storage.
> Although the OSB4 seems to work fine as a Ultra33 controller for
> ATAPI optical devices.  I use the Matsushita/Panasonic and LG GSA
> DVD-RAM/R drives on them without issues.

Aren't ServerWorks boards also really designed with the philosophy of "We'll throw some IDE ports on there, but you're really supposed to use the SCSI ports"?  At least that is definitely how it seems in my file server (ServerWorks IIIHE).  Of course this isn't a problem for me, since that machine is pure SCSI ;-) (unless you count the SATA drives hanging off a 3ware 9500-4LP)  Then again, even pure-SCSI servers often still use IDE for their CD/DVD-ROM drives these days.

-Derek