Promise or Highpoint IDE card?

[Rob Freeman]

Look into 3ware.  Best Hardware IDE cards out there and works great with
linux.

Rob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Compton" <Ben.Compton at sw.edu>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:37 AM
Subject: RE: Promise or Highpoint IDE card?


> Is there any IDE RAID card that Linux likes?  I have a Promise FastTrak66
> that runs fine under RedHat 8.0 but I'd love to upgrade to Fedora and
Fedora
> doesn't like the last drivers released for that card from Promise...they
> refuse to load during the install.  I'm willing to buy a new card but IDE
> RAID is a must.
>
> Ben C.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Rene Cormier [mailto:jean-rene.cormier at cipanb.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 March, 2004 8:24 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Promise or Highpoint IDE card?
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:35, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Mi, den 31.03.2004 schrieb Brian Chase um 03:43:
> > > I disagree, the first upgrade you do with your kernel, you won't see
> > > the
> > > hard drive, stay away from Promise products with Linux, they admit
they
> > > have poor or no support for Linux and are software RAID.
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > BC
> >
> > But in this special case - for which the OP asked: just plain parallel
> > IDE usage, no RAID, no SATA - both cards are supported by driver
> > modules offered by the kernel, no third party modules from vendors
> > needed. Or do I err?
>
> If it's just plain parallel IDE, then the Promise Ultra TX2 cards are
> probably the best card you can get, they were supported by the kernel for
> quite some time and they're really cheap. I have one in a computer and I
use
> software RAID-1 with it and it works great. At half the price of a
> FastTrack, you can't go wrong with them.
>
> Jean-Rene Cormier
>
>
>
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