Any feedback would be appreciated. I have read forums and wiki for many hours. I bought a highpoint 2300 card. I have read it works and some say it doesnt work. I installed yesterday and plugged in two WD raptors. I tested all day, transferred files to and from both drives. I transferred from inside unraid box and out to other computers. I played blueray ISO's from both drives without a hitch. After testing all day I started a parity check before bed. I woke up to parity check done and no errors. My question is Should I trust this card. Is the card supported in the new kernal. Im running 4.5.1. Ive been up for about a month with my unraid box and couldnt be happier.

 

my setup. norco 4220, abit ab9 quad gt latest bios, e4500, 2gb crucial ballistics, corsair 750 single rail, 1 parity, 9 data.

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Any feedback would be appreciated. I have read forums and wiki for many hours. I bought a highpoint 2300 card. I have read it works and some say it doesnt work. I installed yesterday and plugged in two WD raptors. I tested all day, transferred files to and from both drives. I transferred from inside unraid box and out to other computers. I played blueray ISO's from both drives without a hitch. After testing all day I started a parity check before bed. I woke up to parity check done and no errors. My question is Should I trust this card. Is the card supported in the new kernal. Im running 4.5.1. Ive been up for about a month with my unraid box and couldnt be happier.

 

my setup. norco 4220, abit ab9 quad gt latest bios, e4500, 2gb crucial ballistics, corsair 750 single rail, 1 parity, 9 data.

If the card was not supported you would not have gotten as far as you did.  It sounds like it is working for you.

Thanks for the reply. If you look in syslog it says beware of rocketraid cards. These cards corrupt data no matter how they're set up, whats the thought on this.

Thanks for the reply. If you look in syslog it says beware of rocketraid cards. These cards corrupt data no matter how they're set up, whats the thought on this.

Ah yes... now I remember.

 

It all depends on what they "write" and where they write it.  If configured in the "Legacy" mode they write a "signature" to sector 8.

 

Fortunately,

Sector 8 is unused in unRAID.  It starts its first partition on sector 63.  The "signature" written by RocketRaid should not interfere with anything. 

 

If configured in RAID mode or JBOD in the RocketRaid BIOS, it writes to a sector near the end of the disk.  That would be BAD.  Don't use the RocketRaid BIOS to configure your disks.

 

+ printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": For data safety, do not"

+ " use sectors 8-9 on \"Legacy\" drives,"

+ " and avoid the final two gigabytes on"

+ " all RocketRAID BIOS initialized drives.\n");