Hello,

Alexander, does these problems with the Promise SATA300 TX4 happen to
everyone?

The only alternatives are
using soft-raid products as normal controllers. Does anyone have experiences
with the following products?
* Highpoint RocketRAID 1640 (150 MB/s)
* Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 (300 MB/s)
* Adaptec 1210SA


Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 10:31:17 AM, you wrote:

Mikael Pettersson wrote:

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I'm thinking of replacing both 3512 controllers with a Promise SATA300
TX4. Do you know if there are problems with this device?

(please don't top-post)

There are no known data-corruption issues with Promise SATA cards.
However, some of them, especially the 2nd generation SATA300 TX4,
are known to trigger intermittent error interrupts (that are dealt
with but may cause a speed reduction) in some systems. We're still
scratching our heads on that issue.

But see this thread:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=119122463403033&w=2
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg14868.html

Personally I would not recommend Promise SATA300 TX4 at the moment.

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