Re: Promise SATA 150 TX2 plus

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:16:51 -0700


On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:19:07PM +0200, mru@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:
>
> >> > Thanks for the answer, it has got PDC 20375, not
> >> > 20376, but it changes nothing. As Alan mentioned
> >> > here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105440080221319&w=2
> >> > promise has got their own drivers. Have somebody seen
> >> > this drivers really working? My card is not RAID,
> >> > its only controller, I want only see the harddrives.
> >>
> >> Do yourself a favor, and get a Highpoint card instead.
> >
> > I can't speak to the highpoint card, I don't have one of those. I do have
> > a 3ware 8500-4 which works great. I believe that I had to use a later
> > kernel (2.4.20? .21?) to get it to work but it has been working flawlessly.
> > I'm using it in RAID 10 mode.
>
> The 3ware does real RAID, right? I think the OP didn't need that.

The 3ware does RAID or JBOD.

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