SATA Controller

SATA Controller

[Jim Buttafuoco]

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All,

I am thinking of going with the following SATA PCI controller (non raid) to replace my 3ware SATA controller (only 
using JBOD but thats another story).  Any comments on linux support / issues / other controllers you have luck with.  
I am planning on using software raid with 3 of these cards and 10 250G WD SATA disks.

Thanks
Jim

PROMISE PCI to SATA Controller Card, Model "SATA150 TX4" -OEM

Model# Sata150 TX4 	
Item # N82E16816102013	

Specifications:
Ports: 4x Serial ATA/150
OS Support: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP; RedHat 7.3/8.0; SuSE 7.3/8.0
Feature: Bus mastering offloads data I/O handling from host CPU; CRC
error-checking of Serial ATA and Ultra ATA drives for data reliability
during transfers; Data Transfer Rate:150MB/sec with Serial ATA/150 drives,
133MB/sec with Ultra ATA/133 drives, 100MB/sec with Ultra ATA/100 drives;
32-bit 33/66MHz PCI bus; PCI 2.3 compliant

Re: SATA Controller

[Alexander Economou]

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 If you plan on using software raid it would be a nice idea to use a 2.6.x
kernel in case you are using a 2.4.x kernel.There is a huge speed diff in
data transfer between those 2 kernel versions.
 I have installed a couple of s150 tx4 and i can say that they work fine.I
also noticed that there is support for this controller in the low level
driver section(scsi) in 2.4.27 kernel.If this doesnt work out (wich i
doubt it)try downloading the driver from promise.com.
 One thing i dont understand is why buy raid controllers and do software
raid(if that is what you ment)

> All,
>
> I am thinking of going with the following SATA PCI controller (non raid)
> to replace my 3ware SATA controller (only
> using JBOD but thats another story).  Any comments on linux support /
> issues / other controllers you have luck with.
> I am planning on using software raid with 3 of these cards and 10 250G WD
> SATA disks.
>
> Thanks
> Jim
>
> PROMISE PCI to SATA Controller Card, Model "SATA150 TX4" -OEM
>
> Model# Sata150 TX4
> Item # N82E16816102013
>
> Specifications:
> Ports: 4x Serial ATA/150
> OS Support: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP; RedHat 7.3/8.0; SuSE 7.3/8.0
> Feature: Bus mastering offloads data I/O handling from host CPU; CRC
> error-checking of Serial ATA and Ultra ATA drives for data reliability
> during transfers; Data Transfer Rate:150MB/sec with Serial ATA/150 drives,
> 133MB/sec with Ultra ATA/133 drives, 100MB/sec with Ultra ATA/100 drives;
> 32-bit 33/66MHz PCI bus; PCI 2.3 compliant
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Alexander Economou
GNET NOC

Re: SATA Controller

[Jim Buttafuoco]

I got the 3ware card to do hardware raid at first.  The performance we really bad, so I switched to software raid and 
while the performance was alot better, it still didn't match other systems I have here that were doing software raid 
with older IDT (parallel) disks.

Jim



---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Alexander Economou" <aecon@gnet.gr>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:50:13 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Re: SATA Controller

> 0
> 
>  If you plan on using software raid it would be a nice idea to use a 2.6.x
> kernel in case you are using a 2.4.x kernel.There is a huge speed diff in
> data transfer between those 2 kernel versions.
>  I have installed a couple of s150 tx4 and i can say that they work fine.I
> also noticed that there is support for this controller in the low level
> driver section(scsi) in 2.4.27 kernel.If this doesnt work out (wich i
> doubt it)try downloading the driver from promise.com.
>  One thing i dont understand is why buy raid controllers and do software
> raid(if that is what you ment)
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I am thinking of going with the following SATA PCI controller (non raid)
> > to replace my 3ware SATA controller (only
> > using JBOD but thats another story).  Any comments on linux support /
> > issues / other controllers you have luck with.
> > I am planning on using software raid with 3 of these cards and 10 250G WD
> > SATA disks.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jim
> >
> > PROMISE PCI to SATA Controller Card, Model "SATA150 TX4" -OEM
> >
> > Model# Sata150 TX4
> > Item # N82E16816102013
> >
> > Specifications:
> > Ports: 4x Serial ATA/150
> > OS Support: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP; RedHat 7.3/8.0; SuSE 7.3/8.0
> > Feature: Bus mastering offloads data I/O handling from host CPU; CRC
> > error-checking of Serial ATA and Ultra ATA drives for data reliability
> > during transfers; Data Transfer Rate:150MB/sec with Serial ATA/150 drives,
> > 133MB/sec with Ultra ATA/133 drives, 100MB/sec with Ultra ATA/100 drives;
> > 32-bit 33/66MHz PCI bus; PCI 2.3 compliant
> > -
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> > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> >
> 
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> Alexander Economou
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