From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: Re: aic94xx linux driver Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 06:12:18 -0600 Message-ID: <43C25322.9020403@us.ibm.com> References: <001501c6114f$7a6c3c00$520c220a@vugd.gov.lv> <43BF251F.3060007@torque.net> Reply-To: brking@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:43907 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932285AbWAIMMX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:12:23 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k09CCJ51023882 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:12:19 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id k09CCK5P107868 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:12:20 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k09CCJWB012550 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:12:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <43BF251F.3060007@torque.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: dougg@torque.net Cc: Mark Rustad , Deniss , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Mark Rustad wrote: >> Deniss, >> >> On Jan 4, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Deniss wrote: >> >>> Hello ! >>> >>> I have Supermicro 6014H-32 server with adaptec 9410w SAS/SATA >>> controller on board. >>> I have linux kernel compiled with aic94xx driver from http:// >>> linux.adaptec.com/sas/ >>> I am notice that SAS disks work well with this driver, but SATA disks >>> are not mapped to /dev by driver. >>> I tried to contact Luben Tuikov without success. >>> Looks like aic94xx driver is not complete or have no SATA support >> >> I have the same issue. By looking in /sys, you can see that the driver >> does see SATA disks, but there is no software connection between libata >> in the kernel and the SATA-tunneling protocol capability of the Adaptec >> SAS driver yet. I'm sure that there will be an increasing chorus of >> folks looking for this missing piece. > > If no-one else is looking at solving this problem > (libata to aic94xx STP connection) then I may have > time to look at it. > > I would need (remote) access to a machine with that > hardware. Hi Doug, I'm not working on this specific problem, but I am working on some patches to libata to make it possible for SAS adapters to attach SATA devices through libata. I'm in the process of refreshing them since the last time I posted them. Brian -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center