RE: [OT] Promise IDE Card

["Stuart Booth" <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On 3 Jan 02, at 12:29, Ian Lowe wrote:

> Yeah, guilty as charged!
>
> I have had great results with the Promise Cards, and conversely, had
> terrrible experiences (creeping data corruption, damaged FAT
structures,
> NTFS transaction corruption etc) with both the HPT366 and HPT370
> Controllers.

I gave up in disgust with the HPT366 on my BP6 board in my
Server box. Bunged in a Promise card and other than the system
not booting up the first time anymore (I have to turn the box off
[hold-hold-hold the power button] and then shortly back on again)
it's worked perfectly.

I'd probably try an unbranded one next time to see if that initial turn
on problem is a Promise induced error.

A friend had terrible grief with lost partition table information and
such like with a later Highpoint controller. I believe he too went out
and bought a Promise controller and hasn't mentioned it since.
Thus...

> My only thing would be: make sure the value controllers are not using
> Highpoint Chipsets, as these are the problem

....I can only agree.

StuartB