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

From: Pasi Kärkkäinen
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 15:23:16 EST


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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