From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, erich <erich@areca.com.tw>,
billion.wu@areca.com.tw, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: areca RAID driver
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:44:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420064452.GP614@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060419155300.321c352e.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wed, Apr 19 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Gents, Erich thinks that the Areca driver is pretty much ready to go.
>
> We still have the weird read-past-EOF problem if MAX_XFER_SECTORS=4096, but
> this version of the driver has it set to 512, which makes the problem go
> away. I've suggested that we can set that problem aside for now.
The hardware clearly just cannot handle that large a xfer size, so it
should just be left at 512 until that problem is fully understood at
Areca's end.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-19 22:53 areca RAID driver Andrew Morton
2006-04-20 3:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-04-20 4:39 ` erich
2006-04-20 6:44 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-04-20 19:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-20 20:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-20 20:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
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