From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: Promise SATAII150 TX4: strange disk ordering Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:15:11 +0400 Message-ID: <4315BB6F.2050402@wasp.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wasp.net.au ([203.190.192.17]:23006 "EHLO wasp.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932515AbVHaOPe (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:15:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Thorild Selen Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams