From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: SATA chipset recomendations Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:56:46 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40C6ECEE.8090706@dgreaves.com> References: <200406082012.58968.linux_mail@rozpooh.com> <1086777225.40c6e789ade9f@www.tastycake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1086777225.40c6e789ade9f@www.tastycake.net> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Nick Maynard wrote: >M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote: > =20 > >>I'm using a Highpoint RocketRAID 1540 without any problems. There >>have been reports on this list from others having strange problems >>with Rocket 1540 (no fakeraid) cards. >> =20 >> >Yup - that was me. The basic Rocket (not RocketRAID) 1540 card gave m= e /very/ >serious problems with Linux. Really - don't play with it. I managed = to get >mine RMA'd, but... blech. > >The Promise TX4 SATA150, on the other hand, has been nothing but a ple= asure to >work with. It's been recommended by many on this list in the past, an= d I will >now recommend it to you. Yes, it's more expensive, but you get what y= ou pay >for. > =20 > I have one too - fairly happy (just having some raid5 resync issues but= =20 I'm doing some diagnostics and I doubt it's the card) :) I have wondered whether I'd have been better off with 2x Promise TX2s? I don't know where the bottleneck is with 4xSATA disks on a single=20 Promise/PCI slot Or is it a single pci bus in which case the TX4 is fine? David >Cheers, > >-- > >Nick Maynard >nick.maynard@alumni.doc.ic.ac.uk > =20 > You too :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html