On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > While I'm investigating: How about the HighPoint drivers, more > > specifically the one for HPT374 (the HighPoint 1540 card)? > > It's significantly cheaper than the Promise cards. > > There is a GPL'd driver for HighPoint SATA floating around somewhere... > not really well support though, is the basic answer. Based on my experience with a HPT Rocket100 (not a RAID card), and the 2.4.x kernel driver and the drivers supplied by HPT, I'd be very afraid. I bought the Rocket100 thinking it was supported. It's not. Red Hat 8.0, 9, and Fedora Core 1.0 installs either don't recognize it or lock up when probing the drives connected to it. HPT's driver disks for 8.0 and 9 get as far as starting to install RPMS, then die with disk i/o errors. Same hardware with a Promise UltraTX2-100 swapped for the Rocket100 works just fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ - 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
