Re: recommendations for a *stable* sata card

[Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 17:52 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 10/22/06, Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> wrote:
>         Dear all,
>         
>         do you think the issue below will be resolved in the near
>         future ? If
>         not I would better buy a new sata stand-a-lone card which is
>         known to
>         work flawlessly (including error corrections) - which one ?? 
>         
> For a stable / tested card see Tejun's reply
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/11760
> 
> Also see the status matrix at:
> http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix
> 
> FYI: Tejun Heo has been the primary author of the major Error Handling
> rewrite that was introduced into the vanilla kernel with 2.6.18.

So I purchased a dawicontrol 154 (Sil3114) plugged it into the last
remaining pci slot. Although on the same irq as the promise controller
it survived 2 days of torture without *any* trouble. The very same test
done on a promise controller crashes this machine in minutes...

Simply don't use promise products if you need stability.

Soeren
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