On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:32:10PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:36:35PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am putting together a workstation which will have raid. I found the > > following vendors which have ide raid controllers: > > > > www.promise.com (fastrack100) > > www.3ware.com (escalade 3w-6200) > > > > I will be doing raid 0 (striping) strictly for performance. Does anyone > > have experience with these cards or any other cards? Any > > recommendations/comments welcome. > > > I've been looking into this stuff for a while, and have found that the > fasttrack100 cards have timing problems under linux so I would not > recommend these. I'm quite encouraged by 3ware's linux drivers: they > support many more distributions than promise and seem to have a better > commitment to linux. Thus although I've not used them, I'd be tempted > to go for the 3ware cards. >
What about the drivers in 2.4, and the ide-patch for 2.2? Promise is supported pretty well in those, from what I hear. Mike
