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Subject: Re: Promise SX6000 controller
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, David McNett wrote:

> 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.

Which 3ware card are you using? And do you boot from it?

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