In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mustafa Al-Shawaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am interested in buying the Promise SATA150 TX2plus, but I would >like to use it with Debian. I was looking under there drivers >section, and they have support for: > >TurboLinux 8.0 >SuSE 7.3/8.0 >Red Hat 7.3/8.0 >Mandrake 9.0 > >I was wondering if it would be possible to use one of these packages >for Debian.
You don't ever want to buy a product for which there are only binary, distribution-specific drivers. For one, you won't be able to ever upgrade your kernel anymore. And if there is a problem, who says it will be fixed ? Why not buy a cheap Silicon Image chipset-based card (QTEC, for example - there are several others). Those are supported in the standard Linux kernel. If you want RAID, Linux has built-in software RAID that is likely as good if not better than the IDE-RAID boards (they do RAID in software most likely anyway) Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
