which promise card?
Most posts say to stay away from promise cards. Mostly
they say promise has some good 'solutions;, but the end user
stuff is poor.
My amd computer uses the 3112 chip internally, and it seems to
work fine.
b
On 2/15/06, Wing D Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to add a raid-1 to a server ( supermicro x5dal). Since the
motherboard doesn't support hw raid, I'm looking at pci sata
cards.
Intrex has a couple:
CON-SATAR - sil3112a chipset
CON-TX2300 - promice fastrack tx2300 ( SATA II??)
has anybody tried either of these? Any problems?
Can you boot from a sata drive with these cards?
Is there any reason to stay away from fc3/4? CentOS?
The server is a LAMP server, supporting an accounting app
(ARIA), and a few odds and ends ( phplive, etc).
Make sure you look at the status of Linux SATA support at
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/
I originally had a SiL SATA card and it sucked royally. Crashes,
not working, general suckage. Perhaps the drivers have gotten
better. I switched to a Promise SATA card and haven't had any
problems since. I'm using software RAID1. Don't know about
booting since the system disk is just a generic IDE. Good luck.
Cheers,
Tanner
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