Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:36:28PM -0800, nate wrote: > David Priban said: > > What exactly is the issue you are talking about? > > I was just about to build a system using 6410 raid 5 :( > > > > Also couple of weeks ago 3ware announced it is going to > > discontinue Escalade line of products. This

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-08 Thread nate
David Priban said: > What exactly is the issue you are talking about? > I was just about to build a system using 6410 raid 5 :( > > Also couple of weeks ago 3ware announced it is going to > discontinue Escalade line of products. This makes me wonder > if this issue will ever get fixed. > Just check

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:48:57PM +0100, Martin Loschwitz wrote: > What IDE-Raid-Controller would you prefer? The 3Ware Escalade > 6410 or anyone from Promise? And why? > > best regards, > Martin "Madkiss" Loschwitz 3ware has been in the kernel longer and has always seemed to support linux more

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-08 Thread David Priban
What exactly is the issue you are talking about? I was just about to build a system using 6410 raid 5 :( Also couple of weeks ago 3ware announced it is going to discontinue Escalade line of products. This makes me wonder if this issue will ever get fixed. Just checking 3ware website and the anno

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-08 Thread Martin Loschwitz
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:41:41PM -0800, nate wrote: > Martin Loschwitz said: > > What IDE-Raid-Controller would you prefer? The 3Ware Escalade > > 6410 or anyone from Promise? And why? > > 3ware. promise may be good but their driver support for linux > is very bad. beware of 3ware's raid 5. DO N

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-07 Thread nate
Martin Loschwitz said: > What IDE-Raid-Controller would you prefer? The 3Ware Escalade > 6410 or anyone from Promise? And why? 3ware. promise may be good but their driver support for linux is very bad. beware of 3ware's raid 5. DO NOT USE IT. at least not for a while. it still has serious issues(w