OT--SATA problem

[Eric Shubert]

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.
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> 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.
>>>
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>> 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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