Re: Highpoint 1820A

"Mikael Abrahamsson" [off-list ref] wrote in message 
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functioning and failing. Does anyone have a success story with this card 
under linux?

I've generally had quite positive experiences with the card under FC3 and 
FC4 x86_64 using Linux software RAID 5 and the OpenBuild driver.  The driver 
has generally been quite good, however it doesn't appear to support SMART 
I/O controls.  I like to monitor SMART parameters so I can swap out disks 
before they catastrophically fail.

I have started using the now GNU licensed Marvell driver [1] with my 1820a. 
I haven't had a chance to benchmark it, however it works and it does support 
SMART I/O controls. It seems to require a full kernel source tree to build. 
I'm using it with FC4 x86_64.

In the future I am looking forward to using the Brett Russ libata Marvell 
driver that is going in the kernel. I haven't tried the PIO only driver.

Greg :-)

[1] http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/