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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:26:17 -0600
From:      David McNett <nugget@slacker.com>
To:        Tom Glover <tomg@egg.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Promise SX6000 controller
Message-ID:  <20040205162617.GA4275@slacker.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0402050804340.14155@enema.egg.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401160732440.63061@enema.egg.net> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0402050804340.14155@enema.egg.net>

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On 05-Feb-2004, Tom Glover wrote:
> Some questions on the Promise Supertrak SX6000 before I go and spend money
> on it ....

I haven't worked with the SX6000 specifically, but in my testing I found 
the Promise and the Highpoint cards to be erratic during drive failures.
The data was safe but it was not difficult to induce a system lockup 
by disabling one of the drives in a raid1 configuration.

I went with a 3ware card (hypermicro.com is a good vendor) which I found to
be nearly bulletproof.

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