RE: [OT] 8-port AHCI SATA Controller?

["Roger Heflin" <rheflin@atipa.com>]

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sander [mailto:sander@humilis.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:15 AM
> To: Roger Heflin
> Cc: 'Lennart Sorensen'; 'Sander'; 
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; jgarzik@pobox.com
> Subject: Re: [OT] 8-port AHCI SATA Controller?
> 
> Roger Heflin wrote (ao):
> > Highpoint has some that I believe are software raidish.
> > 
> > They do have on-board parity generators that are used when you use 
> > there binary only modules.
> > 
> > I have heard that they will work with later kernels (2.6.15+) since 
> > the highpoint are a standard Marvell chipset, and they seem to be 
> > fairly price competitive with JBOD raid controllers, and have some 
> > controllers that have more than 8 ports, the price per port may be 
> > better on the larger controllers.
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I'll do some research on the Highpoint 
> controllers.
> 
> 	Kind regards, Sander

Something important to note, if you need to use highpoints binary
driver (ie the one in the kernel is not quite working yet) - then you
will need to run a 2.6.13 or earlier kernel, their driver has some
issue with 2.6.14+ they are working on it.

I believe this also holds true of the Marvell drivers also, highpoints
driver is (from what I can tell) a modified Marvell driver with their
binary software raid support added on, so the Marvell driver *may* also
have an issue with the later kernels.

                            Roger