From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Christian Brandt <brandtc@psi5.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Highpoint DC7280
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:28:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FDFF1C1.4060808@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FDEDE3A.7030507@psi5.com>
On 06/18/2012 01:52 AM, Christian Brandt wrote:
> My company got hold of a Highpoint DC7280 for evaluation purposes. As we
> weren't that much impressed - mostly due abysmal propetiary drivers and
> support - I got it as a toy gift to play at home.
>
> Abstract in novella form: it is a dirt cheap 32 Port SATA-Controller. It
> features eight Marvell Chips each with a four port SATA Port Multiplier.
> Highpoint has abandoned all support (as usual) right a week before
> releasing it and the driver - dated 2011-06 - needs even some fiddling
> to compile under 3.0. Then it crashed upon writing. Besides that it is
> not THAT bad... gets around 250MB/s per Controller even with all eight
> controllers under maximum load.
>
> Is anyone else poking it with a stick?
>
> [1] http://www.highpoint-tech.cn/PDF/DC7280/DC7280_DS.pdf
>
> [2]
> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/DC7280/driver/Linux/dc7280-linux-src-v1.0-110621-1313.tar.gz
> (if KERNELVERSION==2.6 then... ok, so much about that one...)
>
What does lspci -vv show for that board?
It looks like that driver contains a binary blob so who knows what it is
actually doing internally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-19 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-18 7:52 Highpoint DC7280 Christian Brandt
2012-06-18 18:58 ` Mark Lord
2012-06-19 3:28 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2012-06-27 16:27 ` Christian Brandt
2012-06-28 5:30 ` Robert Hancock
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