On Fri, 21 May 2004, John P. Looney wrote:
> Please note: promise is not a RAID chipset. It's something that
> pretends to be a RAID chipset, with the aim of making you wish you
> had bought one.
> I've seen promise hard-hang linux boxes randomly, when there was loads of
> *reads* going on.
With promise's drivers they're dreadful cards, eg i remember
installing RH9 or somesuch on promiseraid and it corrupted as it was
installing! (least after rebooting into installed machine i noticed
lots of corrupted files).
They're fine if you use treat them as normal controllers and use
Linux software RAID, as god intended. Apparently the newer Promise
SATA SX cards have some interesting features for software RAID
support. (just wait for Jeff Garzik to add support for it - dont ever
use a promise driver!)
> john
regards,
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