From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Sabourenkov Subject: Re: Sata Sil3512 bug? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:44:01 +0400 Message-ID: <47132851.5050409@lxnt.info> References: <200710030726.l937QXuV026661@harpo.it.uu.se> <47035355.2040405@lxnt.info> <1398538486.20071014140703@zonnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.lxnt.info ([217.23.143.142]:59921 "EHLO mail.lxnt.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753564AbXJOJTy (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:19:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1398538486.20071014140703@zonnet.nl> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: MisterE Cc: Mikael Pettersson , htejun@gmail.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, benh@kernel.crashing.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org MisterE wrote: > Hello, > > Alexander, does these problems with the Promise SATA300 TX4 happen to > everyone? > Most probably not, as I think it would have been fixed much faster then. I was waiting for a) release of 2.6.23, and b) me completing the move to another flat to retest all the latest developments in mainline and libata-dev. With a) done and b) almost done, I'll retest and report any issues quite soon. Besides, there is a report of TX4 and 2.6.23 not showing problems that were there with 2.6.22, ( see "Bug is fixed in 2.6.23.1: sata_promise: port is slow to respond, reset failed" thread). > The only alternatives are > using soft-raid products as normal controllers. Does anyone have experiences > with the following products? > * Highpoint RocketRAID 1640 (150 MB/s) > * Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 (300 MB/s) > * Adaptec 1210SA > For any kind of non-hobby task I'd skip trying to build a disk array to buying a SATA-SCSI/SATA-iSCSI box. While I had many mind-boggling issues with various combinations of SATA HDDs, onboard and standalone controllers, Promise and Infortrend disk arrays worked quite reliably. -- ./lxnt