2009-01-07 23:48:25 - Operating System: Slackware Linux - My rating: 
We did not have success with this RAID controller.
The 1742 is a fakeraid which offloads most of its processing to the CPU. The people who worked on the project before me tried using the RAID controller on Mandravia and using the rpms supplied by Highpoint. The system would lock up during boot up. They put it on the back burner until I took over the project.
I used Slackware 12.1 and compilied the Highpoint supplied drivers without any errors. I could not configure a RAID using the cli tool. I could see the drives and initialize them. However, I could not put them into a RAID. Whenever I tried, the audio alarm would go off as soon as the RAID was initialized and say the drives had failed. It worked fine when I pulled out the card and drives, configured them in a Window's box, and returned them to the slackware box, they would work; but could not create a second RAID.
I gave up on Slackware and installed FreeBSD since Highpoint supplies pre-compilied binaries for FreeBSD. It worked without a hitch on FreeBSD.
My advise is to skip this one. Either use mdadm that comes with most Linux distributions and create a software RAID. Or, use a real RAID, not the RAID's equivelent of the winmodem.
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