From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Soeren Sonnenburg <reiserfs@nn7.de>
Subject: Re: Promise raid controller writes to disk, anybody know where?
Date: 16 Apr 2003 23:26:06 +0200
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On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 18:24, Hans Reiser wrote:
> I just bought this motherboard with a promise raid controller builtin 
> whose manual mentions that it writes information to disk (volume and 
> config info I believe).  Anybody know where it does this, and whether I 
> need to be worried about it stepping on something?

Yes, I just threw 2 promise controllers away because the drivers are
damn instable (at least for kernels 2.4.19- 21pre7).

If you don't want to risk unnecessary crashes buy a controller that is
*really* supported like the highpointech/cmd/3ware/via ones.

Soeren.