> On Monday 15 September 2003 07:17, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > > > > > > what about high point they clearly state that they support linux > mandrake > > > right on their literature. well and redhat and suse. > > > > acording Alan Cox hpt SATA should be suported by the standard PATA > driver > > > > hpt them selves have a "open source " driver, if the raid code is > ommited > > it might be merged > > in the kernel. > > but i never heard of success or failed stories > > > > svetljo > thanks this would a very interesting thing to know. I have not got a > controller yet but have been looking at them. The adaptec and high points > looked like what I wanted to go with. > > I have many boards with the promise controller and they are junk. The si > ones > have been known to have issues with hard drive corruption and other > things.
from what i read at lkml, ICH5 shoud work without problems with the libata driver & hard disks only VIA was also added recently in libata but libata is missing in the cooker kernels in cooker the only SATA addition (against vanila kernel) is the promise OSS driver so it might be a good idea to wait a bit more before getting SATA hardware svetljo -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More! +++ Getestet von Stiftung Warentest: GMX FreeMail (GUT), GMX ProMail (GUT) (Heft 9/03 - 23 e-mail-Tarife: 6 gut, 12 befriedigend, 5 ausreichend) Jetzt selbst kostenlos testen: http://www.gmx.net
