From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: HighPoint 1820 (8pt sata pcix, $170) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:47:38 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031128194738.GB21310@gtf.org> References: <20031119165519.GB14191@ti19.telemetry-investments.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: To: Mark Hahn Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:04:24AM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > > do you have any comment on the HighPoint 1820 card? it's an 8-port SATA > controller with PCI-X, and appears to list for about $US 170 (pricewatch). > there's a driver (apparently binary-only, therefore of unknown quality) > available from the vendor, but I suspect no real (kerne.org or libata) > driver support... HighPoint is just about the only manufacturer that hasn't contacted me about getting a SATA driver for their hardware into the kernel :) I would go for Promise or ServerWorks 4-port and 8-port SATA cards, if you don't wanna spend the extra bucks for a real RAID card (and I personally trust software RAID over hardware RAID any day). Jeff