Hello, Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 10:31:17 AM, you wrote: > Mikael Pettersson wrote: >>> >>> I'm thinking of replacing both 3512 controllers with a Promise SATA300 >>> TX4. Do you know if there are problems with this device? >> >> (please don't top-post) >> >> There are no known data-corruption issues with Promise SATA cards. >> However, some of them, especially the 2nd generation SATA300 TX4, >> are known to trigger intermittent error interrupts (that are dealt >> with but may cause a speed reduction) in some systems. We're still >> scratching our heads on that issue. >> > But see this thread: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=119122463403033&w=2 > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg14868.html > Personally I would not recommend Promise SATA300 TX4 at the moment. After all the problems i had with the sweex 3512 cards i returned them to the shop and decided to buy a Sata300 TX4 (because the shop nearby had one. Unfortunately the shops in the region don't have Highpoints) Things looked promising when i inserted the card in both Intel D815EEA motherboards. No problems detecting the hard drives (unlike with the 3512 cards). With the 3512 i had LOTS of error messages and corrupt data when writing to it. Using a separate videocard, instead of the onboard one, seemed to reduce the amount of errors. But after some heavy reading/writing with the promise i got 2 errors. (see log file). But i did'nt find any corrupt files. I can not reproduce the error. I'm not sure if these are the "intermittent error interrupts" Mikael Pettersson mentioned? ps: as you can i see i got at the boot some errors from the boot disk (hda). I not sure what is wrong with it. Sometimes it produce these errors. Used a non-destructive read-write test with badblocks but no bad sectors found. I don't know if this could influence the sata controller. Alexander Sabourenkov can you please tell me where i can find the "Bug is fixed in 2.6.23.1: sata_promise: port is slow to respond, reset failed" thread you mentioned? I also see that the driver is now at version 2.10. Is there something really critical changed? I've tried testing with Debian stable (2.6.18-4-686; sata_promise: 1.04) and with Debian Unstable (2.6.22-2-686; sata_promise: 2.07). 2.6.23 is not in the repositories yet. So basically the question is this. Can i trust the SATA300 TX4 or should i buy a Highpoint RocketRAID 1640/1740?. I can order such device online but i need to be sure that it works correctly :( -- Best regards, MisterE mailto:MisterE2002@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
