Promise Technology
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Promise Technology manufactures ATA and SATA (RAID) controllers, which usually feature Promise chips for the device interface and no RAID CPU, therefore they are "soft-RAIDs".
Almost everyone has some stories to tell about the usage of Promise controllers, most of these end with "stay away from Promise".
Common to these trouble reports are:
- Controller is used with an OS that is not Windows
- More-than-nothing I/O
- Log entries like "... tried to write beyond end of device ..."
- RAID/Data was missing after a reboot
