RocketRAID 1820 issues

Question:

What SATA cards do people have that work great with Vanilla 2.6 linux?
Or at least with an Open Source driver.  I would prefer no hardware
RAID.  I have WDC WD12 Model: 00JD-00GBB0 drives.


The story:

I've got a bunch of systems with RocketRAID 1820s in them with the 2.6
kernel, and the RocketRAID proprietary driver.  After running bonnie++
on them for 10 or so minutes the kernel starts returning the errors:

SCSI error : <0 0 4 0> return code = 0x25050000
end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 614175
Abort called pid: 5357 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0
Abort called pid: 5358 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0
Abort called pid: 5359 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0
Abort called pid: 5360 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0
Abort called pid: 5361 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0
Abort called pid: 5362 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0
Abort called pid: 5363 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0
Abort called pid: 5364 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0
RR182x: Bus Reset: host=0, channel=0 target=4

HighPoint's support says I have a bad drive even though I get a
similar error an multiple drives.  To satisfy them I need to run the
drive diagnostic floppy, but it dose not see the drives through the
RacketRAID card.

I would like to get some SATA cards that will let me run the drive
diagnostic.  I'm also looking for cards that will be a possible
replacement for the RocketRAID 1820.  We do not use RAID on these
drives, so I would rather not have RAID support at all.  Getting two
cards instead of the current one to get the 8 drives working is fine.

Solutions on how to make the RocketRAID 1820 work correctly would be
helpful too.
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