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			<title>RocketRAID 230x 4 port Sata-II pci-e controller rev 02 (3)</title>
			<link>http://www.linuxcompatible.org/RocketRAID_230x_4_port_Sata-II_pci-e_controller_rev_02_c14142.html</link>
			<description>This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last rating (3) has been submitted on 2009-09-14 10:14:49 by Anonymous running Linux other:&lt;br /&gt;The controller has been running fine on my OpenFiler file server for five months now without any issues at all. Installation is simply plugin - there is kernel support.

However (from the syslog):
 sata_mv: Highpoint RocketRAID BIOS CORRUPTS DATA on all attached drives, regardless of if/how they are configured. BEWARE!
 sata_mv: For data safety, do not use sectors 8-9 on &quot;Legacy&quot; drives, and avoid the final two gigabytes on all RocketRAID BIOS initialized drives.

These issues are easy to circumvent by simply not using the RocketRAID BIOS. Especially, don't initialize the drives there! Just let Linux discover them and use them as is or with Linux software raid. I'm using software RAID5 with LVM on top to be able to seamlessly add another RAID5 set when I grow out of storage. The 230x will be a candidate for that if there still are no non-raid 4-port controllers when I get to that point in time.

I deduct two stars for the following reasons:
1 Having to pay for Windows fake-raid drivers (I don't think there is any raid hardware?) and
2 the scary corruption warnings.</description>
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			<title>RocketRAID 1742 (3)</title>
			<link>http://www.linuxcompatible.org/RocketRAID_1742_c13908.html</link>
			<description>This product has been tested on the following operating systems: CentOS,Slackware Linux and has a average rating of 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last rating (4) has been submitted on 2009-01-07 23:48:25 by Anonymous running CentOS:&lt;br /&gt;CentOS 5.2
Open source drivers installed
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/rr1740/Linux/rr174x-linux-src-v2.1-080710-1311.tar.gz

I had issues with this card whilst the sata_mv kernel module was loaded. Either remove 
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_mv.ko or 
Modify /etc/init.d/hptdriver like so

#Unload sas_mv before loading rr174
rmmod sata_mv
modprobe rr174x
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			<title>HighPoint Rocket 1540 Serial ATA Controller (1)</title>
			<link>http://www.linuxcompatible.org/HighPoint_Rocket_1540_Serial_ATA_Controller_c11331.html</link>
			<description>This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last rating (1) has been submitted on 2004-03-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:&lt;br /&gt;Rocket 1540, i.e. the one without (mostly software) RAID support.
Don't trust them when they say they support Linux.  They only have binary drivers for this card and they don't give out the source. </description>
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