Re: HighPoint Rocket 1540 hang driver load

["Måns Rullgård" <mru@kth.se>]

Nick Maynard <nick.maynard@alumni.doc.ic.ac.uk> writes:

> Thanks all for your replies.
>
> After having tried near everything (RocketRAID OSS driver with
> NON_RAID=1 (and a Makefile adjustment for brain errors from Highpoint)
> ), I still get the hangs you guys are talking about.  Not to mention
> hardware conflicts with my ancient mobo with onboard HPT366.
>
> I've come to the conclusion that the Rocket 1540 is quite frankly a
> useless card, and to get it to work with 2.6.x is probably asking too
> much.  I've managed to RMA the Rocket 1540 card, and I'm buying a
> Promise SATA150 TX4.
>
> So to repeat for future reference by the list, Rocket 1540 on Linux
> (esp 2.6) is a nono.  Buy a Promise card.

For it was the opposite.  I had no luck with a (PATA) Promise card, so
I replaced it with a Rocketraid 1540 a year ago.  It's been running
smoothly ever since, with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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