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From: Dylan Griffiths <dylang+kernel@thock.com>
To: "Jakob Østergaard" <jakob@unthought.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: HPT 370 / RAID 5 possible corruption issue.]
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 00:21:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC92F07.7030801@thock.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC381DE.4090300@thock.com> <20011012012453.C6330@unthought.net>

Jakob Østergaard wrote:

> I can't say what the current status is.   But some time ago some people I know
> got burnt with silent corruption from using HPT cards with RAID5 and RAID0, the
> cards were replaced with Promise cards, and the problem went away (as it should
> - I've been running a lot of RAID on Promise cards and never saw the problem).


I've got a spare Promise card now that I will test and keep posted of the 
results.

 
> As long as there are Promise cards to get, I'm not going anywhere near HPT.
> 
> Maybe there's a fix somewhere, maybe there's a magic BIOS setting or upgrade,
> maybe something else can make it work, I don't know.  Promise cards are cheap
> so I don't care.
> 
> Sorry for not being able to give you "good" information, but at least now you
> got "some" information.   Hope it helps, for what it's worth.
> 

I wonder, if the HPT card support is so bad, or the hardware itself is so 
squirelly, why it's not marked as UNSTABLE or has a note about the HW 
being evil.

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-10-14  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09 23:01 [Fwd: HPT 370 / RAID 5 possible corruption issue.] Dylan Griffiths
2001-10-11 23:24 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-10-14  6:21   ` Dylan Griffiths [this message]

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