Nick Maynard <nick.maynard@alumni.doc.ic.ac.uk> writes: > Thanks all for your replies. > > After having tried near everything (RocketRAID OSS driver with > NON_RAID=1 (and a Makefile adjustment for brain errors from Highpoint) > ), I still get the hangs you guys are talking about. Not to mention > hardware conflicts with my ancient mobo with onboard HPT366. > > I've come to the conclusion that the Rocket 1540 is quite frankly a > useless card, and to get it to work with 2.6.x is probably asking too > much. I've managed to RMA the Rocket 1540 card, and I'm buying a > Promise SATA150 TX4. > > So to repeat for future reference by the list, Rocket 1540 on Linux > (esp 2.6) is a nono. Buy a Promise card. For it was the opposite. I had no luck with a (PATA) Promise card, so I replaced it with a Rocketraid 1540 a year ago. It's been running smoothly ever since, with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se - 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
