My company got hold of a Highpoint DC7280 for evaluation purposes. As we weren't that much impressed - mostly due abysmal propetiary drivers and support - I got it as a toy gift to play at home. Abstract in novella form: it is a dirt cheap 32 Port SATA-Controller. It features eight Marvell Chips each with a four port SATA Port Multiplier. Highpoint has abandoned all support (as usual) right a week before releasing it and the driver - dated 2011-06 - needs even some fiddling to compile under 3.0. Then it crashed upon writing. Besides that it is not THAT bad... gets around 250MB/s per Controller even with all eight controllers under maximum load. Is anyone else poking it with a stick? [1] http://www.highpoint-tech.cn/PDF/DC7280/DC7280_DS.pdf [2] http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/DC7280/driver/Linux/dc7280-linux-src-v1.0-110621-1313.tar.gz (if KERNELVERSION==2.6 then... ok, so much about that one...) -- Christian Brandt life is short and in most cases it ends with death but my tombstone will carry the hiscore -- 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
