Known good eSATA CardBus controllers

Known good eSATA CardBus controllers

[Henry, Andrew]

I bought an ST Labs CardBus controller with 2 ports to drive my 2 WD MyBooks in RAID1, and I have previously asked for help on this list about implementing RAID1, but it now seems that I have issues with my controller.

Can anyone recommend an eSATA CardBus controller that is known to work very well with Linux?

I ran badblocks on both disks simultaneously for 24 hours and then badblocks read the discs to verify the data and this worked perfectly, not a single error.

However, the discs spin down, and when I try to access them again, one of the ports (not any specific port) hangs trying to access the disc.  I can sort of get around this with sdparm -C start and a cron job, but it happens at boot time as well, which is not so easy to fix.

Would appreciate and tips on good known controllers.

Thanks
Andrew.

Re: Known good eSATA CardBus controllers

[Jeff Breidenbach]

> Would appreciate and tips on good known controllers.

See this post + surrounding thread, circa November 2007

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg12754.html

Re: Known good eSATA CardBus controllers

[Jeff Breidenbach]

> See this post + surrounding thread, circa November 2007

Sorry, I managed to not digest the word "CardBus"

Re: Known good eSATA CardBus controllers

[Bill Davidsen]

Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
>> See this post + surrounding thread, circa November 2007
>>     
>
> Sorry, I managed to not digest the word "CardBus"
>   

Glad you didn't, that's an interesting thread, and on a list I rarely read.

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