Messages in this thread | | | From | Parag Warudkar <> | Subject | Re: new card to me? | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2007 23:25:23 +0000 (UTC) |
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Gene Heskett <gene.heskett <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Greetings; > > Is this drive interface card supported by the current linux kernel? > > Masscool XWT-RC018, as seen on tigerdirect's site: > > <http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3501402&CatId=1455> > > Thank you. >
The site says it is based on ALi M5283 and this[1] SATA support status page (Revised Feb 27 2007) says it is supported and the driver is production quality. sata_uli is the driver.
This [2] review over at Newegg says it works with Linux.
More over the changelogs for sata_uli.c do not indicate they removed support for it and Google says people found and fixed bugs with that drive [3] - so it would be a safe bet to say it should be supported with current kernels.
[1] http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html [2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815280001&Tpk=RC018 [3] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7590
[ I went through this recently when I had to buy a SATA card - I got one with a Silicon Image chip for no particular reason ]
HTH Parag
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