[ILUG] Highpoint Sata RAID

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, FRLinux wrote:

> I am looking for a Serial ATA RAID Controller card and Highpoint 
> has two types, a 2 port (1520) and the 4 ports (1640). Their site 
> indicates compatibility with FreeBSD, and several Linux including 
> several 2.6.x kernels.
>
> Has anyone got experience with such a card under Linux ? I would be
> specifically interested in its use in hardware RAID.

 	http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html

Doesn't look particularly promising.

Go for a controller with a driver listed as 'beta' or better on that 
page. I'm using cheap sil3112a cards which work fine (except some 
older/earlier SATA drives are slightly buggy wrt a corner case in the 
SATA specs which happens to bite with the Sil 3x12 controllers, and 
hence the driver has to implement a performance detrimental 
workaround for those drives. New drives should be fine though). The 
Promise sx{2,4} cards seem good.

regards,
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