On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:04:24AM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > > do you have any comment on the HighPoint 1820 card? it's an 8-port SATA > controller with PCI-X, and appears to list for about $US 170 (pricewatch). > there's a driver (apparently binary-only, therefore of unknown quality) > available from the vendor, but I suspect no real (kerne.org or libata) > driver support... HighPoint is just about the only manufacturer that hasn't contacted me about getting a SATA driver for their hardware into the kernel :) I would go for Promise or ServerWorks 4-port and 8-port SATA cards, if you don't wanna spend the extra bucks for a real RAID card (and I personally trust software RAID over hardware RAID any day). Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
