PATA Controller for Linux that *works*

From: J (usenet_at_linuxnuts.net)
Date: 01/14/04 

Date: 14 Jan 2004 08:20:12 -0800

Help! I need a PATA controller for Linux that actualy works. I've
got a RH 7.3 box running an older 2.4 kernel (for now). I put a
High-Point 404 card in it about a year ago and have had nothing but
problems with it since. I have to manually force their drivers to
load, every time, which isn't a big deal as long as everything else
works. I had 2 120GB drives hooked up to it in a basic stripe
originally. It kept mysteriously coming up with numerous filesystem
errors (ext3). After have a dozen fscks it would come back to life,
albeit with lots of missing files. I assumed it was a drive error. I
bought to 250GB drives (Maxtor, I forget the model) and created
another stripe out of them. I copied my data to that volume from a
dated backup and all seemed to be well, mostly, until yesterday. Now,
yet again, another volume on this damned High-Point card is going to
craps on me. I've never seen fsck spit out so many errors before.
This card is a serious POS.

I need to find a replacement PATA controller for this box. I've used
a 3ware 7000-2 before in another box and was happy with it (much more
so than the builtin Promise OEM chipset that mobo came with). I also
know that 3ware controllers have support in the Linux kernel (big
plus). The reason I didn't buy one though was their extreme cost. Is
3ware the way to go anyhow? As soon as I get this drive somewhat
recovered, I'll move the original (now mostly unused) 120GB drives to
the new controller and start copying data off the volume I'm trying to
restore. I don't have a backup of this data anymore. I can't find a
backup solution for 500GB that isn't cost-preventative. I'm tempted
to say to hell with HW RAID and use software RAID instead. I had far
fewer problems back with 2.2 and SW RAID on SCSI. Any thoughts or
suggestions would be very appreciated. Thanks

J

PS==> Email to this address will bounce. Reply here please.

Relevant Pages

  • Need a plain PATA controller card that works with ATAPI devices.
    ... Seeing as my next motherboard only come with a single channel PATA controller and I regulary have 3 or 4 DVD drives in my case I need to find a PATA controller card which actually works with ATAPI devices. ... One chipset I found that supposedly works is ones based on the ITE 8212F chipset, after a BIOS flash using a ATAPI BIOS you end up with a non RAID controller which supports CD/DVD drives. ...
    (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
  • Re: Need a plain PATA controller card that works with ATAPI devices.
    ... channel PATA controller and I regulary have 3 or 4 DVD ... drives in my case I need to find a PATA controller card ... which actually works with ATAPI devices (ie CD/DVD drives). ...
    (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
  • Re: no internal ATA/IDE connectors any more
    ... I came across the ASUS boards for socket ... This page says the P5K Premium/WiFi-AP has a PATA controller and supports 2 ... IDE devices (usually your CD-ROMs but can also be hard drives). ... shows the red IDE connector on the left. ...
    (alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus)
  • Re: new drive
    ... I already have 2 optical drives. ... what is the best way to hook up the third drive? ... another PATA controller. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Promise 20276 FastTrak IDE RAID1 Hot Swap
    ... between the drives and the controller. ... My kernel is a Redhad 9 Linux kernel 2.4.20-8 ... >chip numbers associated with their different controllers. ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)