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From: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: new card to me?
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 23:25:23 +0000 (UTC)
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Gene Heskett <gene.heskett <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Greetings;
> 
> Is this drive interface card supported by the current linux kernel?
> 
> Masscool XWT-RC018, as seen on tigerdirect's site:
> 
>
<http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3501402&CatId=1455>
> 
> Thank you.
> 

The site says it is based on ALi M5283 and this[1] SATA support status page
(Revised Feb 27 2007) says it is supported and the driver is production quality.
sata_uli is the driver.

This [2] review over at Newegg says it works with Linux.

More over the changelogs for sata_uli.c do not indicate they removed support for
it and Google says people found and fixed bugs with that drive [3] - so it would
be a safe bet to say it should be supported with current kernels.

[1] http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
[2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815280001&Tpk=RC018
[3] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7590

[ I went through this recently when I had to buy a SATA card - I got one with a
Silicon Image chip for no particular reason ]

HTH
Parag

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