From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "IKARASHI, Seiichi" Subject: Re: Problems with ata-piix driver Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:47:34 +0900 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40CFC2D6.2050304@miraclelinux.com> References: <2CAA5C8E-BEC8-11D8-BEE9-000A95B0A866@wm.edu> <40CFB5D7.2000702@miraclelinux.com> <40CFBC60.5000606@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from vcgwp1.bit-drive.ne.jp ([211.9.32.211]:65160 "HELO vcgwp1.bit-drive.ne.jp") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266113AbUFPDrk (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:47:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <40CFBC60.5000606@pobox.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Norman Elton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > IKARASHI, Seiichi wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> How about reconstruct the SATA RAID volume into >> non-RAID volumes (separated single disks)? >> The ata_piix/libata driver in RHEL3 seems not support >> SATA RAID. When I encountered a similar situation on a machine >> which was connected with a SATA HDD with its Intel 6300ESB chip >> on-board, I made the RAID function of ESB disable and installed OS. > > > > This is something different -- the hardware does NOT support RAID. A > separate software RAID driver is required for Intel's proprietary RAID > format. This driver has been posted to linux-kernel for 2.4.x, but is > not available for 2.6.x kernels. > > Jeff Hi Jeff, Is it the patch you mentioned above? http://lwn.net/Articles/60247/ Or any updates after this? It seems to work with your ata_piix. Seiichi