OT--SATA problem

[Stephen]

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 <ejs at shubes.net> 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.
>
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