Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:25:33 +0200 | From | Pasi Kärkkäinen <> | Subject | Re: promise sata 300 TX4 and Samsung HD (SP2004C) -> Sector errors |
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:23:12PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:26:54AM +0100, Oliver Joa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Oliver Joa wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > > > > >i have a brandnew Promise SATA 300 TX4 Controller and 2 Samsung HD > > >(SP2004C). I am using Linux 2.6.15 and also tried 2.6.15.4 with > > >sata_promise-driver. I get sector-errors: > > > > [...] > > > > It seems to be that it is not working. I want to buy a other controller. > > Which one do you recommend for linux. I would like to have a cheap one > > with good driver support. Any idea? > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > When I searched for PCI SATA controllers some time ago, I found out Promise SATA > 300 was best supported in Linux. sata_promise driver is marked as "production" > in the sata status pages. > > Most of the other PCI SATA controllers are based on marvell chipset, but the > Linux driver for marvell is still beta :( > > I'm successfully using Promise SATA 300 with Seagate drives, no problems so > far. *knocking wood* >
http://linux-ata.org/sata-status.html
And yes, there is of cource sil3124 chipset, but it is also beta..
-- Pasi
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