On Tue, March 6, 2007 06:12, Anders Norrbring wrote:
I downloaded their driver packs to see what was in them, and this is in the README file:
1. Overview ------------
The SHIM (Adaptec HostRAID re-compilable package ) code model allows
OK, I wasn't aware of this - haven't worked with any new cards in about a year.
Then "HostRAID" isn't h/w RAID, it's software, much like the infamous nVidia chipsets and Promise. I don't know if those driver packs are needed to just communicate with the drives, if not, I'm home safe with those controllers if I should use Linux' own software RAID.
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/sata_cards/entry/AAR-1220SA/_details/1... Make sense then to avoid these
I should take a look at 1420SA and 2420SA as well, I just noticed that they exist, I don't have a clue about what they are/do yet.
According to their website the 1420SA is a HostRAID card. The 2420SA Is a normal hardware raid card - aacraid driver - I've used this one.
With emphasis on the words *used to be*, Huberts kernels are no more... :(
Sad that. My more_than_one_year_old_notebook's ACPI is still not sorted out (although there are some groundbraking patches in the upcoming 2.6.21). I'm still not having a 100% successful experiencing building vanilla kernels on SUSE - there's always something bitching at me.
I actually haven't heard anything negative about Highpoint so far, not much positive either... At least they do manufacture quite some chips for Adaptec, so I guess their stuff shouldn't stink too much?
Which chips do they manufacture? The RAID controller (shudder) or the SATA controller? I remember the LSI SATA-160 card had the LSI RAID card had three Sil3112 chips on (to control the six drives) and the LSI RAID controller on top of that. I assume the RAID controller is the same one used on the SCSI cards I used (had the same crap performance). Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org