SATA controller cards

Samuel Flory sflory at rackable.com
Tue Dec 23 19:28:02 UTC 2003


Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> William Hooper wrote:
> 
> 
>>Since most SATA hard drives currently are bridged PATA drives, does it
>>really matter?
> 
> 
> 3w driver doesn't use the new LiNUX libata subsystem.


   And this is a bad thing?  The 3ware driver is hell of a lot more 
mature than libata.  (In fact it's got better Linux support than most 
scsi raid controllers.)  I'm not saying the libata driver is a piece of 
crap, but author freely claims it's a work in progress.

-- 
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
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Sam Flory  <sflory at rackable.com>





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