Re: promise sata 300 TX4 and Samsung HD (SP2004C) -> Sector errors

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

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*

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