[ILUG] SATA controllers / disks

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Paul Jakma (paul at clubi.ie):

> Anyone know if the Highpoint Rocket 1540 is any good, especially 
> wrt linux support, eg:
> 
> 	http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=120099&cks=PRL

It's strictly fakeraid, for one thing.  (But pretty cheap, neh?)  At its
price, you could buy one just to see if it sucks, and use the Linux md
driver so you're not trapped into buying a second one if the first one
fails.

There's late-2.4.x kernel support for the underlying HPT374 chipset.
Details at "Serial ATA" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware .

> Also, what about disks?  [...]
> (obviously, the disks need to be linux compatible).

It's not immediately obvious to me how any might not be, though perhaps
I'm missing something.

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