The problem I referred to was with software/linux raid and raw drives on the promise controller. Just to be clear. As you said they seem to work fine as standalone (no raid) drives. On 09/16/2011 09:27 AM, Stephen wrote: > I have never liked promise raid, too flaky. but as just raw drives > they are very nice. > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: >> On 09/15/2011 08:29 PM, Stephen wrote: >>> >>> I have a promise sata1 cars with two ports on it. >>> >> >> I have a promise pci 4 port sata3 card. These work ok, so long as you don't >> put a raid-5 array on it. There used to be (2 years or so ago) a fairly rare >> problem with software raid and these cards. I don't know if the problem >> applies to other raid types or not, nor whether the problem has been fixed. >> >> -- >> -Eric 'shubes' >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss