If you are having problems with Promise SATA300 TX4 on Linux (2.6.x) and don’t want to rebuild kernel, get Linux kernel 2.6.14 or later, where Promise SATA300 TX4 is supported out of the box.
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Promise SATA300 TX4 on Fedora Core 4
After installing Promise SATA300 TX4 into FC4 box, we’ve discovered that it is not supported out of the box as of kernel 2.6.12. After some research on the Internet, we’ve found a solution to this problem compiled from here and here. Basically you need to add one line to file sata_promise.c and recompile the kernel. [...]
HighPoint Rocket Raid 1640 and fakeraids
I just found some interesting info about RAID’s. It appears to be that almost all cheap (below $300) RAID controllers are so called fakeraids. Meaning they don’t have any RAID hardware onboard. They are just plain PATA/SATA disk controllers that have no RAID features plus some proprietary software that does all the RAID-related calculations. Because [...]
32-bit PCI, 64-bit PCI, and PCI-X compatibility
For a couple of last days I was trying to figure out whether PCI-X is, at least theoretically, backward compatible with plain PCI standard (both 32- and 64-bit). Finally I’ve found an article that provides a good description and answers the question.
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