Promise or Highpoint IDE card?

[Samuel Flory]

Brian Chase wrote:
> I disagree, the first upgrade you do with your kernel, you won't see the 
> hard drive, 

   Sure if you are foolish enough to use a binary driver, but that's not 
what I'm advocating at all.

> stay away from Promise products with Linux, they admit they 
> have poor or no support for Linux and are software RAID.


   Yes, but he did mention he didn't want to use the raid features. 
Promise's binary raid driver's are more trouble than they're worth, but 
the chipset is a better than average ide controller.  As a pure ide 
controller the

> 
> Here's a good blurb on SATA adapters, a little off topic, but relevant 
> to support and general Linux compatibility.
> 
>     http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

   Yes Rick's faq is a great place to start if you are looking for a 
SATA controller.  However the Promise FastTrak 133, and HighPoint 372 
are PATA.


PS- I wrote several entries in the above faq.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> BC
> 
> Samuel Flory wrote:
> 
>> Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Does anybody know if the IDE Cards from Promise and/or Highpoint work 
>>> in Fedora core-1?
>>> I'm specially interested in Promise FastTrack 133 or HighPoint 372.
>>> I don't want to use the RAID functions, just the IDE part.
>>> I can't find good infos...
>>> Thanks
>>> -jec
>>>
>>
>>
>>   The Promise FastTrak will work fine as an IDE controller.  
>> Attempting to use the driver based raid features can only end badly.  
>> Read the ataraid list archives for details.  The HPT 372 is said to be 
>> much the same, but I'd not used it much.
>>
> 
> 
> 


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