From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Sabourenkov Subject: Re: Sata Sil3512 bug?; Promise SATA300 TX4 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:54:25 +0400 Message-ID: <47160601.80506@lxnt.info> References: <200710030726.l937QXuV026661@harpo.it.uu.se> <47035355.2040405@lxnt.info> <135469746.20071017143929@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]:63635 "EHLO mail.lxnt.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754500AbXJQMyE (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:54:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <135469746.20071017143929@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, jeff@garzik.org MisterE wrote: > But after some heavy reading/writing with the promise i got 2 errors. (see log file). Log file got lost. Please post relevant parts inline. > Alexander Sabourenkov can you please tell me where i can find the > "Bug is fixed in 2.6.23.1: sata_promise: port is slow to respond, > reset failed" thread you mentioned? That would be this one: (got split into two parts) http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg14069.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg15299.html > > So basically the question is this. Can i trust the SATA300 TX4 or > should i buy a Highpoint RocketRAID 1640/1740?. I can order such device > online but i need to be sure that it works correctly :( > Since you have the hardware, do the tests and decide for yourself. I'd try copying one (big, preferably over 160G ) disk onto another (with dd) for a start, while waiting for answers on mailing lists. -- ./lxnt