On 2/15/06, Wing D Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > which promise card?
It's been a while, but I believe it was the TX4 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102038 > Most posts say to stay away from promise cards. Mostly > they say promise has some good 'solutions;, but the end user > stuff is poor. End user? Are you reading windows manuals or what? It works perfectly in my Kubuntu system and all the "end user" stuff isn't dependent upon the underlying drivers. > My amd computer uses the 3112 chip internally, and it seems to > work fine. Good for you. Like I said, perhaps the SiL drivers have gotten better. But, burned once, I won't soon go back to them again. The Promise TX4 driver's status is listed as "Production" (See http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html#tx2 ). When I had the SiL it was listed as either beta or alpha. It now seems to be listed as 'Production, but appears to have issues with newer Seagate NCQ drives, and issues with "screaming interrupts."' (See http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html#sii311x ). Like I said, look at the Linux SATA web pages and make your own decisions from that. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
