Re: Promise SATAII150 TX4: strange disk ordering

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Thorild Selen wrote:
> allen@gist.net.au (Allen Bolderoff) writes:
>> However - this card/driver is known to break when using more than 1
>> drive at a time (ie accessing 2 or 3 drives at once) 
> 
> I only have experience with the SATA150 TX4 (which uses the same
> driver), but it quite obviously breaks somewhere between 2.6.10 and
> 2.6.11. Several people have been reporting problems with sata_promise,
> using several disks simultaneously with a kernel later than 2.6.10.

In one machine, I'm using 15 disks on 4 SATA150TX4 cards with 2.6.11.7 and have been now for over 4 
months.. it's working perfectly.. not so much as a glitch.

My other box is still running 2.6.10-pre10 with 12 disks on 3 SATA150TX4 cards and the same.. no 
glitches

Brad
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