Look into 3ware. Best Hardware IDE cards out there and works great with linux. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Compton" <Ben.Compton@xxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:37 AM Subject: RE: Promise or Highpoint IDE card? > Is there any IDE RAID card that Linux likes? I have a Promise FastTrak66 > that runs fine under RedHat 8.0 but I'd love to upgrade to Fedora and Fedora > doesn't like the last drivers released for that card from Promise...they > refuse to load during the install. I'm willing to buy a new card but IDE > RAID is a must. > > Ben C. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Rene Cormier [mailto:jean-rene.cormier@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, 31 March, 2004 8:24 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Promise or Highpoint IDE card? > > > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:35, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Mi, den 31.03.2004 schrieb Brian Chase um 03:43: > > > I disagree, the first upgrade you do with your kernel, you won't see > > > the > > > hard drive, stay away from Promise products with Linux, they admit they > > > have poor or no support for Linux and are software RAID. > > > > > > Here's a good blurb on SATA adapters, a little off topic, but > > > relevant to > > > support and general Linux compatibility. > > > > > > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > BC > > > > But in this special case - for which the OP asked: just plain parallel > > IDE usage, no RAID, no SATA - both cards are supported by driver > > modules offered by the kernel, no third party modules from vendors > > needed. Or do I err? > > If it's just plain parallel IDE, then the Promise Ultra TX2 cards are > probably the best card you can get, they were supported by the kernel for > quite some time and they're really cheap. I have one in a computer and I use > software RAID-1 with it and it works great. At half the price of a > FastTrack, you can't go wrong with them. > > Jean-Rene Cormier > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
