hi jijo
you are right about 3ware. if u want true AAA-UDMA in major distros like SuSE and
Redhat, 3ware Escalade is the best way to it. the reason for this in my belief is
3ware's drivers were written by our kernel hacker Andre Hedrick himself through a
contracted arrangement bet. him and the company. specifically we have some 4 boxes
running on SUSE using this 3ware cards and pretty stable so far..another thing is its
cheaper than its competitors..... 3ware has a much better chance of becoming the
standard AAA-UDMA interface for most linux distros....Promise and Adaptec have so so
linux support and has shown much less of open source initiative based on our
experience in requesting for hardware documentation.....here in
Oakland....btw...accdg. to Lionel Watkins of 3ware there is no listed reseller for
3ware in the Phils. ....
cheers,
L. Perens
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:43:57 Federico Sevilla III wrote:
>Hi there fellow PLUGgers,
>
>Please pardon me if this line of questioning has been asked already
>recently and been answered. I've been unable to read my mail for quite
>some time (overload, hahaha!). This explains my silence. Hehehe. ;>
>
>Would anyone know if anyone is locally selling the 3Ware Escalade 3W-6400
>IDE (UltraATA/66) RAID controller? I've been doing research and it looks
>like the 3Ware is the most "Linux friendly", having kernel support from
>2.2.15 and up, plus (supposedly) tools packaged for RH 6.0, 6.2, and SuSE.
>Competing with 3Ware are Promise and Adaptec. I just e-mailed Adaptec and
>they're working with a bunch of Linux distributions to get drivers out,
>but they told me I'd have to ask these guys (RedHat, TurboLinux, some
>others) about Linux support. Didn't see the AAA-UDMA in LhD. E-mailed
>Promise before and looks like their Linux works but is ... nothing great
>(customer support wise).
>
>While we're at it, has anybody used the AAA-UDMA with Linux? How about the
>Promise? And would anybody know anyone locally selling Promise cards?
>Adaptec has information on a local distributor/reseller for their
>products. FWIW:
>
>Millennium Computer Technology Corp.
>No.53 Tangali St., San Jose
>Quezon City, Postal code 1115
>Philippines
>Tel No:(632) 363-7777 or (632) 330-7213 up to 18
>Fax No: (632) 330-7219/7220/7221
>
>I hope someone can help me out with the 3Ware info
>
>Maraming salamat po, at maligayang pasko sa inyong lahat! (nyek, hehehe)
>
> --> Jijo :-)
>
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