Re: Promise RAID controller card

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 1 Apr 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 03:52, Abhishek Sharma wrote:
> > Can someone tell me if the RAID controller card from Promise SX6000 is
> > supported by RHL 7.3 with kernel 2.4.18 ???

I've had less than terribly good luck with the i2o pci driver on these 
things. the promise pti_st  driver does working fairly well. tweaking the 
bios and playing with firmware versions was pretty hit-or-miss with the 
sx6000. for consistencys sake we just went with the promise module accross 
all our sx6000 using machines.
 
> Some SX6000 setups work some don't. Promise also have their own driver
> for the card you can download (its all source format). The older
> supertrak100 also works but both of them seem rather slower than the
> 3ware cards
> 
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