From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Brahneborg Subject: Re: siimage and two nics Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:30:50 +0100 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031227083050.A8631@nettis.grimsta> References: <20031226085450.A4045@nettis.grimsta> <34449.209.163.161.49.1072444479.squirrel@mail.clanhk.org> <20031226195705.B4045@nettis.grimsta> <3FEBAFA5.8020604@clanhk.org> <20031226232826.A7057@nettis.grimsta> <3FEBCA3C.5000803@clanhk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from 212-214-141-193.v-by.wtnord.net ([212.214.141.193]:28058 "EHLO ricercar.mine.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265336AbTL0Haz (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 02:30:55 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FEBCA3C.5000803@clanhk.org>; from heretic@clanhk.org on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 05:42:20AM +0000 List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Ryan Earl" Cc: Daniel Brahneborg , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 05:42:20AM +0000, J. Ryan Earl wrote: > Daniel Brahneborg wrote: > > >I guess I could, I just needed something to install to. > >It's a file server, so it's the SATA disks that will take > >the biggest hit. > > You should put your busiest disks on the southbridge (via_sata). I'll keep that in mind, thanks. > >I wouldn't mind using something else, but then I must first > >understand how to get it to stop messing with my PATA hda. > >Would that driver make the SATA disk suddenly appear as IDE > >disks instead of SCSI? > > I don't understand why that matters. It doesn't matter if they are IDE or SCSI, as long as they work. What matters is that I still want to be able to access the small IDE drive I have on the PATA connector. > >Checking... oh, it's 1.06 in Linus 2.4.23 kernel. The diff > >doesn't seem to be very much, just a check for 3114 and a fix > >for Seagate drives. > > Have you considered 2.6? I tested it for a while, but had some problems with it. I'll try it again and see if it makes any difference. > >SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) > > sda: sda1 sda2 > >SCSI device sdb: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) > > sdb: sdb1 sdb2 > >SCSI device sdc: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) > > sdc: sdc1 sdc2 > >SCSI device sdd: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) > > sdd: sdd1 sdd2 > > OK. So you have a 4 160GB SATA drives that show up as sda-sdd using > libata. Exactly. Or rather, 4 152GB drives, since Samsung seems to think that K = 1000. *sigh* > That's cool. I had problems with the sata_sil driver though, > it wasn't stable for me. I'd suggest using the IDE driver until it's > been worked on more. How do I find out what happens with the PATA disk when I load the siimage module? > It's alpha right now, but the IDE driver is > production ready by my testing anyway. You just have to modify your > raidtab to account for the new device location (hda/hdc or hde/hdg) of > using the IDE driver. That's no problem. Btw, what speed should I be able to get with the siimage module? /Basic