On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Per Jessen
David C. Rankin wrote:
I just purchased and installed a Promise SATA300 TX4 4 port 3.0G sata controller. I installed the thing in an older MSI km2m motherboard and stuck 2 500G Samsung drives on it, configured it for software RAID1, formatted and I was done.
The one problem with that hardware is that the linux driver (originally for RedHat and SuSE 9.3) is out of date and will not compile on 10.3 so you are limited to the performance of the default promise driver which is good ATA performance, but not the improved SATA performance. But for $65, I'm not complaining.
I wonder why Promise isn't updating those drivers? Seems like they've been left in the dark.
I think Promise has been giving some support to the team working on the in kernel GPL driver instead of maintaining their own proprietary driver. I don't know if 10.3 has a good Promise drivet built-in or not, but 11.0 should. If your curious just search the change logs for kernels 2.6.18 through 2.6.25 and see when the Promise driver changes went in. It was somewhere in that large time frame. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org