From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Malcolm Beattie Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:13:44 +0000 Subject: Re: UltraPenguin 1.1.9 update Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Malcolm Beattie Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services