[TriLUG] raid cards

Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 12:09:40 EST 2006


On 2/15/06, Wing D Lizard <wingedlizard at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> which promise card?

It's been a while, but I believe it was the TX4

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102038

> Most posts say to stay away from promise cards.  Mostly
> they say promise has some good 'solutions;, but the end user
> stuff is poor.

End user?  Are you reading windows manuals or what?  It works
perfectly in my Kubuntu system and all the "end user" stuff isn't
dependent upon the underlying drivers.

> My amd computer uses the 3112 chip internally, and it seems to
> work fine.

Good for you.  Like I said, perhaps the SiL drivers have gotten better.
But, burned once, I won't soon go back to them again.  The Promise
TX4 driver's status is listed as "Production" (See
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html#tx2 ).  When I had the SiL
it was listed as either beta or alpha.  It now seems to be listed as
'Production, but appears to have issues with newer Seagate NCQ
drives, and issues with "screaming interrupts."' (See
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html#sii311x ).

Like I said, look at the Linux SATA web pages and make your
own decisions from that.

Cheers,
Tanner

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