Hi,
I'm having serious problems with my Silicon Image SATA card, and am considering replacing with a (more expensive) Promise SATA TX2 Plus card.
First I have some questions, to avoid getting into the same mess as I'm in now.
1. What is the status of the Promise driver? Stable for everybody? (The SI3112 has problems for some people when using the IDE driver, and for some with the SCSI driver.) A binary module is ok, a binary bzImage definately is not.
It's beta, and stable.
2. Has anybody used the driver on an Abit KV7 motherboard?
3. Has anybody used it with *2* network cards? Bonus points for the builtin Via Rhine and an 8139 card. (The SCSI driver for the SI3112 kills the machine when a second card is activated.)
4. Has anybody used it together with two other disks on the VIA SATA interface on the KV7?
5. Has anybody used it for a Raid5 setup? (With SI3112 Raid1 works better than Raid5, since Raid5 gives corrupted files all over the place and Raid1 only corrupts them once in a while.)
Any comparison with Silicon Image is false. The Silicon Image driver has been repeatedly stated (by me, the author) to be BROKEN. It is thusly marked with CONFIG_BROKEN.
Those who ignore the author stating the Silicon Image driver is _alpha_ and unfinished do so at their own risk.
6. Has anybody used it in a non-root setup, having hda on
the PATA interface? (The SI3112 causes lots of problems
with I/O port and IRQ conflicts, requiring hours of
tweaking of the boot parameters.)
PATA interfaces on Promise SATA are not yet supported.
7. Do you have DMA enabled? (SI3112 without DMA works fine,
but with terrible performance.)
DMA cannot be disabled :)
8. Do you get decent performance? (The 5MB/sec I get without
DMA on the SI3112 card is _not_ decent.)
Performance is far beyond this.
Jeff
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