From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johny_=C5gotnes?= Subject: Re: Which SATA Combos To Consider? Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:44:57 +1000 Message-ID: <42153A89.2090909@agotnes.com> References: <4212CBD6.7020703@wasp.net.au> <42132803.2080701@wasp.net.au> <4213821D.1030203@pobox.com> <4213B2F8.2070800@wasp.net.au> <20050216154033.I10699@florence.linkmargin.com> <4213CD9E.9040703@pobox.com> <20050216174954.K10699@florence.linkmargin.com> <4213DE38.70309@pobox.com> <20050216182040.L10699@florence.linkmargin.com> <421426DB.2000308@pobox.com> <20050217085934.M10699@florence.linkmargin.com> <4214ECE9.7070502@pobox.com> <1108669364.3604.80.camel@vom> <421535F6.80609@latech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from munin.agotnes.com ([202.173.149.60]:26765 "EHLO mail.agotnes.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261279AbVBRApq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:45:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <421535F6.80609@latech.edu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Ryan Bourgeois Cc: Danny Cox , Linux IDE List Just a quick note on the SX4 Card - I have seen data corruption on hard-drives too in the simplest possible setup, so I'd stay clear of that card until further notice. Mine is sitting in a cupboard right now, awaiting 'someone' (me, if I get some time to learn low-level kernel drivers) debugging the issue. Basically, accessing two drives via this card causes corruption, I had it working ok when I only accessed 1 drive, which is kinda pointless... :)J Ryan Bourgeois wrote: > Danny Cox wrote: > >> I've been mostly lurking here for awhile now, just seeing how things >> are going. I've seen various drives on a blacklist, and various >> controllers that do this or that well, but have problems doing foo. >> There also seem to have been a Strange Interaction as well, but that's a >> fuzzy memory at best. >> >> So, my question is: if YOU were to purchase an SATA setup brand new, >> what would you specify? Which drives, motherboards, and PCI cards would >> you recommend that just work? >> >> I don't even mean "work like a Mercedes", by which I mean almost >> perfection. I mean like a Chevy. I don't mind a little tinkering to >> get it right, but I want my disk subsystem to be solid thereafter! I've >> got important stuff here! Like my wife's backup; NEVER lose your wife's >> backup (shudder)! >> >> If SATA isn't ready for consumerdom, I'd like to know that too. This >> just isn't for Jeff and Bart either. I'd like to hear success stories >> from those whose systems just hum along all the time! >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> >> > On my file server I run the Highpoint RocketRAID 1640. It's a software > RAID five card. Basically it's just a PCI card with two HPT374 chips > each with two SATA plugs (a total of four plugs). So it's a no frills > PATA card with SATA converters onboard. I run three Western Digital > 120gb SATA drives on it with a Linux Software RAID 5 array on them. > Aside from the fact that it's a PATA card at heart (so it doesn't use > libata), my only complaint is that it's slow. It's stable as a rock, > though, I've had no problems with the card or drives. > > I have a Promise SX4 that I tried. I had those same three drives > connected to it, but I was having some problems with the array when I > was using it. It had a tendency to corrupt the filesystem, for some > reason. I was having other problems at the time, though, so it could be > unrelated to the card I was using. If I get time and money I may try > and set up an array on the card for testing. > > Anyways, out of personal preference, I go with Western Digital hard > drives. For SATA cards, the Promise TX cards seem pretty reliable. I > have an onboard TX2 on my main machine running a WD Raptor. I've had > absolutely no problems with it and libata. Or in Windows, for that matter. > > I haven't used any other cards or drives, so I cannot offer anything in > that direction. > > -Ryan Bourgeois > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html