Re: RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak376) (rev 02)
Superuserman <editor@postscript.port5.com> writes:
> Goswin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I got 2 new SATA drives and pluged them into the onboard Promise
>> PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) and run badblocks on them (both in
>> parallel). The write test completed fine but read&compare locked up my
>> system.
>> I repeated with a read-only test and again it locked up with an DMA
>> timeout.
>> Does anyone have the onboard Promise successfully in use on an Asus
>> K8V board?
>> MfG
>> Goswin
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> Goswin-
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> Promise is GARBAGE for mirroring.
>
> I activated the Promise RAID TX2plus in my ASUS AV8 Deluxe with one
> SATA and one PATA in a RAID mirror mode. The status was Critical for
> every reboot because the mirror didn't match and had to be
> rebuilt. This was in DOS not Linux.
What has that got to do with it working under linux amd64 at all?
Linux doesn't even use the promise raid code but has to emulate it
with its own code. And everybody with half a brain uses linux own
software raid instead of ata raid emulations.
MfG
Goswin
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