From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Ryan Earl" Subject: Re: Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:47:48 -0600 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40664AE4.8010003@clanhk.org> References: <4066342B.4080105@clanhk.org> <406643A8.2050808@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ns.clanhk.org ([69.93.101.154]:36526 "EHLO mail.clanhk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262077AbUC1Drl (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:47:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <406643A8.2050808@pobox.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > J. Ryan Earl wrote: > >> I was wondering, what is the state of the sata_sil driver for the VIA >> VT8237 southbridge (ie the one used commonly on their K8T >> motherboards). Is this still beta? Any known problems with it? > > > Well prior to the most recent version, calling it "beta" was putting > it kindly. I would call it broken :) which was why it was marked with > CONFIG_BROKEN... > > As of the most recent 2.6.5-rc2-bk snapshots, libata and sata_sil > should be pretty happy with each other. I meant sata_via, I dunno why I said sata_sil; Freudian typo. I was thinking of the current sii3112 I use, which has been stable and blazingly fast for awhile with the IDE driver--and a little little patch I keep applying. I'm looking to upgrade a server with 2 Raptors in it to an A64 running 64-bit Linux of course. I wanna get the HDs off the PCI bus and onto the VT8237 southbridge. I was wondering if the driver for -that southbridge- was still considered beta. -ryan