Re: Decent, cheap SATA controller

2009-02-12 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Joe Fleming wrote: First off, in the past I have recommended the Promise TX4 SATA controller. I no longer recommend it; seems there's a hardware bug that silently corrupts data in Linux. I recently found this out first hand... Can you provide any more

Re: Decent, cheap SATA controller

2009-02-12 Thread Joe Fleming
I don't have any of the errors handy, but I know it's not fixed in Ubuntu 8.04LTS (with latest updates) or the newest Knoppix. Here are some links I found when I was looking around for the errors. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2007-10/msg00382.html

Decent, cheap SATA controller

2009-02-06 Thread Joe Fleming
First off, in the past I have recommended the Promise TX4 SATA controller. I no longer recommend it; seems there's a hardware bug that silently corrupts data in Linux. I recently found this out first hand... This bring me to the purpose of this email; I need to replace the card. I simply need a

Re: Decent, cheap SATA controller

2009-02-06 Thread Stephen
Sounds like a siig On 2/6/09, Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote: I got one from Frys for literally $7 and it works great. Even ran a software RAID5 array on it with no problems. I don't remember the brand though, just that the PCB was red. -Charles Stephen wrote: Look

Re: Decent, cheap SATA controller

2009-02-06 Thread Charles Jones
Ah yes that's exactly what it was. Stephen wrote: Sounds like a siig On 2/6/09, Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote: I got one from Frys for literally $7 and it works great. Even ran a software RAID5 array on it with no problems. I don't remember the brand though, just

Re: Decent, cheap SATA controller

2009-02-06 Thread Charles Jones
I got one from Frys for literally $7 and it works great. Even ran a software RAID5 array on it with no problems. I don't remember the brand though, just that the PCB was red. -Charles Stephen wrote: Look at highpoint they have some that should fit your bill On 2/6/09, Joe Fleming