Promise SX6000 controller

Massimiliano Stucchi max at willystudios.com
Thu Feb 5 08:43:10 PST 2004


On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:26:17 -0600
David McNett <nugget at slacker.com> wrote:

> 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.

What about using the superswap 1000 bays that come with with the
Fasttrack 2000TX pro ? I think that being hot-swap bays they should
handle the situation in a slightly different way.

Is there anybody with some feedback on this ?

Greetings
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Stucchi Massimiliano     | Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia
WillyStudios.com         | http://www.gufi.org 
stucchi at willystudios.com | max at gufi.org
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Stucchi Massimiliano     | Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia
WillyStudios.com         | http://www.gufi.org 
stucchi at willystudios.com | max at gufi.org
"People who make no mistakes do not usually make anything"
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