Decent, cheap SATA controller

[Joe Fleming]

I don't have any of the errors handy, but I know it's not fixed in
Ubuntu 8.04LTS (with latest updates) or the newest Knoppix.

Here are some links I found when I was looking around for the errors.

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2007-10/msg00382.html
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2008-10/msg02255.html

The first link talks about the corruption problem, The second link I
found when searching for my error, but again, I don't recall what my
specific error was. There are a lot of reports about the card having
problems coming back online after being in standby, but I had all ACPI
stuff turned off so that wasn't my problem.

Of course, it's possible that my card just died and it's not a kernel
problem. If that's the case, that card is barely a year old, so I still
wouldn't recommend it on that grounds. The card did work for about the
last year at least if that's worth anything...

-Joe

Alex Dean wrote:
> 
> On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Joe Fleming wrote:
> 
>> First off, in the past I have recommended the Promise TX4 SATA
>> controller. I no longer recommend it; seems there's a hardware bug that
>> silently corrupts data in Linux. I recently found this out first hand...
> 
> Can you provide any more information about this bug?  Specifically if it
> might have been corrected in later kernels?  I've looked around online
> and not found any references to this, but your description makes me want
> to avoid this card as well.
> 
> thanks,
> alex
> 
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