Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-12-13 Thread Patric Karlsson
Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: * sata_promise: Generally works okay; however there are still some problems with recent 3Gbps chips. (Mikael, please pitch in) Right, 2nd-gen 3Gbps chips have had intermittent issues, which we hope are cured by the

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-12-13 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Patric Karlsson writes: Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: * sata_promise: Generally works okay; however there are still some problems with recent 3Gbps chips. (Mikael, please pitch in) Right, 2nd-gen 3Gbps chips have had intermittent

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-12-13 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On 2007-12-13 15:09, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Patric Karlsson writes: Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: * sata_promise: Generally works okay; however there are still some problems with recent 3Gbps chips. (Mikael, please pitch in)

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-18 Thread Tejun Heo
Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: * sata_promise: Generally works okay; however there are still some problems with recent 3Gbps chips. (Mikael, please pitch in) Right, 2nd-gen 3Gbps chips have had intermittent issues, which we hope are cured by

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-15 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Thanks for the excellent rundown. sata_sil24: 3124/3132 chips don't have any outstanding serious problems. IRQ loss on PCI-X was the only recent serious known problem but it's fixed now. I'm still a little confused how to translate this known-good chipset to an

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-15 Thread Jim Paris
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Thanks for the excellent rundown. sata_sil24: 3124/3132 chips don't have any outstanding serious problems. IRQ loss on PCI-X was the only recent serious known problem but it's fixed now. I'm still a little confused how to translate this known-good chipset to an

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-15 Thread john
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Jim Paris wrote: Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Thanks for the excellent rundown. sata_sil24: 3124/3132 chips don't have any outstanding serious problems. IRQ loss on PCI-X was the only recent serious known problem but it's fixed now. I'm still a little confused how to

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: I read with interest I. Straford's current trials and tribulations with the Promise SATA300 TX4. Do people have a favorite alternative to this card that plays well with Linux? I've read the chipset compatibility list, but am not sure how to boil that information down

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Jeff Breidenbach wrote: I read with interest I. Straford's current trials and tribulations with the Promise SATA300 TX4. Do people have a favorite alternative to this card that plays well with Linux? I've read the chipset compatibility list, but am not sure how to boil that

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: * marvell ones: I don't have much idea. Jeff? Mark? .. Right now, support is rather primitive and incomplete in sata_mv. That may change over the next few months, as Marvell is beginning to show some desire to have their chips fully supported, to/beyond the current levels

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Thanks for the excellent rundown. sata_sil24: 3124/3132 chips don't have any outstanding serious problems. IRQ loss on PCI-X was the only recent serious known problem but it's fixed now. I'm still a little confused how to translate this known-good chipset to an actual buyable PCI card. It

stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-13 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I read with interest I. Straford's current trials and tribulations with the Promise SATA300 TX4. Do people have a favorite alternative to this card that plays well with Linux? I've read the chipset compatibility list, but am not sure how to boil that information down to an actual buyable SATA