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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $90.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
kernel-image.2.6.8-10-AMD64
Distribution:
Debian
This is a Promise Ultra133 card.
It words perfectly under debian, and problerly also other distros.
Pls note. You are able to install more then just one card to your computer.
This enables you to have +8 harddisk/CD-ROM/DVD drives on your computer.
Just note, that the linux kernel is able to see this devies during startup, but if you have more then 8 devies, they are not automaticly added to /dev/hdX.
So use /dev/MAKEDEVICE /dev/hdX, where X marks the location of your newly added drive.
Then use the normal procedure with fdisk/mkfs/fstab
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
Distribution:
RH8, RH9, FC3, FC4
This controller has worked seamlessly with the above distributions while plugged into a PCI slot on this Asus K7V motherboard. This is with various Western Digital and Maxtor hard disk drives hanging off it.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $30.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.8-1-386
Distribution:
Debian Sarge (stable)
This is a great controller card. Once I installed the card the system recognized it and there were no drivers that needed installed.
I had a little trouble when I first installed it due to bios settings. The system was a unstable and during file transfers would lock up. Took me back to the windows days. :) After I set the bios for hard drive ata settings, boosting them up the thier max, then the system stabilized and has run great since.
I still give the card a rating of 10 since it was settings on the motherboard that were causing the instability. Once they were set correctly the system and the controller have performed excellent ever since.
Distribution: *buntu - Slackware - Anything on USB
Posts: 254
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.12
Distribution:
Suse Mandriva Debian Mepis K/Ubuntu Most LiveCDs
Promise Ultra 133 TX2 - Worked without a hitch, right out of the box. Never needed a driver (can't say the same for XP!) Highly recommend! Running with 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax.
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 1
Kernel (uname -r):
Linux storage 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 #1 Tue Jul 12 20:44:34 GMT 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ GNU/Linux
Distribution:
Gentoo
I've tracked this down further now, and have found in google groups, the linux kernel group and the linux ide group, that there is in fact a problem with the driver for the later model Promise controllers.
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