ctribo@college.dtcc.edu (Chris Tribo) writes:
> 	I recommend not getting any promise product. We made the mistake 
> of getting a ST6000 from them. Until the last firmware update, the card 
> didn't notice bad blocks or write failures from the disks, and just 
> happily kept writing. So you end up with the array going on and offline 
> randomly,and/or the card locking up randomly and/or data
> corruption. 

That's my experience with the Promise controller on my Asus A7V.  That
controller is an unreliable piece of crap with the time between
errors/lockups/freezes measurable in single-digit hours.  Luckily my
board has connections for he slower Via (southbridge?)  controller,
which does work correctly.

-wolfgang
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