From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Brandt Subject: Highpoint DC7280 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:52:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4FDEDE3A.7030507@psi5.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:50593 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753038Ab2FRHwa (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:52:30 -0400 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3WG4K966fqz4LDdc for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:52:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3WG4K96097z4KK5g for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:52:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id m27OYgmnwgX8 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:52:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sword.brandt.rfc1918 (ppp-188-174-71-131.dynamic.mnet-online.de [188.174.71.131]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:52:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.3.7] (work3.brandt.rfc1918 [10.0.3.7]) by sword.brandt.rfc1918 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC302003E for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:52:26 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org My company got hold of a Highpoint DC7280 for evaluation purposes. As we weren't that much impressed - mostly due abysmal propetiary drivers and support - I got it as a toy gift to play at home. Abstract in novella form: it is a dirt cheap 32 Port SATA-Controller. It features eight Marvell Chips each with a four port SATA Port Multiplier. Highpoint has abandoned all support (as usual) right a week before releasing it and the driver - dated 2011-06 - needs even some fiddling to compile under 3.0. Then it crashed upon writing. Besides that it is not THAT bad... gets around 250MB/s per Controller even with all eight controllers under maximum load. Is anyone else poking it with a stick? [1] http://www.highpoint-tech.cn/PDF/DC7280/DC7280_DS.pdf [2] http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/DC7280/driver/Linux/dc7280-linux-src-v1.0-110621-1313.tar.gz (if KERNELVERSION==2.6 then... ok, so much about that one...) -- Christian Brandt life is short and in most cases it ends with death but my tombstone will carry the hiscore