Re: Decent, cheap SATA controller

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Author: Alex Dean
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Decent, cheap SATA controller

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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