Messages in this thread | | | From | "Roger Heflin" <> | Subject | RE: [OT] 8-port AHCI SATA Controller? | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:53:57 -0600 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Sander [mailto:sander@humilis.net] > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:15 AM > To: Roger Heflin > Cc: 'Lennart Sorensen'; 'Sander'; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; jgarzik@pobox.com > Subject: Re: [OT] 8-port AHCI SATA Controller? > > Roger Heflin wrote (ao): > > Highpoint has some that I believe are software raidish. > > > > They do have on-board parity generators that are used when you use > > there binary only modules. > > > > I have heard that they will work with later kernels (2.6.15+) since > > the highpoint are a standard Marvell chipset, and they seem to be > > fairly price competitive with JBOD raid controllers, and have some > > controllers that have more than 8 ports, the price per port may be > > better on the larger controllers. > > Thanks for the tip. I'll do some research on the Highpoint > controllers. > > Kind regards, Sander
Something important to note, if you need to use highpoints binary driver (ie the one in the kernel is not quite working yet) - then you will need to run a 2.6.13 or earlier kernel, their driver has some issue with 2.6.14+ they are working on it.
I believe this also holds true of the Marvell drivers also, highpoints driver is (from what I can tell) a modified Marvell driver with their binary software raid support added on, so the Marvell driver *may* also have an issue with the later kernels.
Roger
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