Re: UltraPenguin 1.1.9 update

[Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>]

Jakub Jelinek writes:
> I've updated kernel in UltraPenguin distribution to 2.2.5 current, so that
> 1) SCSI/HME PCI cards are fully supported

Indeed, "insmod qlogicisp" now seems to work fine on my Ultra5 with
SunSwift SCSI/HME PCI card. Many thanks to DaveM who you said, I
believe, did the PCI port recently. I don't have any disks to try on
it immediately but I've a 6 x 10K RPM 9GB multipack arriving RSN
(ordered a few weeks ago) which I can hook up and run some benchmarks
on. I'm putting the disks on a new web server in a couple of weeks or
so but I'll have a little window to run any tests/benchmarks if
people want any done. Does this 2.2.5 kernel have Mingo's new RAID
code or is it still the old stuff? From the presence of the
raidtools-0.90 RPM and the "raid5: using high-speed VIS checksum
routine" boot time message I'd guess it's the new (which I'm already
using in production on a number of machines). If so, I'll do some
testing to see how Ultra5+SunSwift benchmarks against PII+BT958 with
the same disk array for various RAID combinations (and maybe even
against Solaris+Solstice Disk suite on the same (SPARC) hardware.

Thanks for the 2.2.5 update, by the way, it works fine.

--Malcolm

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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services