Any recommended PATA or SATA chip for kernel 2.6.x ?

Any recommended PATA or SATA chip for kernel 2.6.x ?

[Kyle Wong]

Hi,

I need to build a six disk IDE md raid-5 with-in a month, Is here anyone and
recommed some PATA or SATA chip which is known to be trouble free and kernel
2.6.x friendly?

I found in the market that most PCI IDE card are using "siimage (CMD?),
HiPoint and IT8212 chip, are they working well with 2.6.x ?

Also, is the Intel ICH-5 SATA problem (somthing about interrupt) solved?

Thanks in advance, Please CC my email.

Kyle

Re: Any recommended PATA or SATA chip for kernel 2.6.x ?

[mark]

> Hi,
>
> I need to build a six disk IDE md raid-5 with-in a month, Is here anyone
> and recommed some PATA or SATA chip which is known to be trouble free
> and kernel 2.6.x friendly?
>

3ware Escalade Raid controllers are your best bet. They are supported in
the default kernel and provide web and command line administration tools
for linux.

> I found in the market that most PCI IDE card are using "siimage (CMD?),
> HiPoint and IT8212 chip, are they working well with 2.6.x ?

Well when considering SATA last time I checked libata (library used by
open source SATA drivers) didn't support hotswapping. So really you can't
build a proper RAID 5 array without that. Some one can correct me if
Hotswap has now been added.

Some of the proprietary drivers may support hotswap, but I really don't
know. I know we played with the SIL3112a but never tried hotswap.

Re: Any recommended PATA or SATA chip for kernel 2.6.x ?

[Matthias Andree]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Kyle Wong wrote:

> I found in the market that most PCI IDE card are using "siimage (CMD?),
> HiPoint and IT8212 chip, are they working well with 2.6.x ?

http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1787

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c?only_with_tag=MAIN#rev1.50

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?402F88AB.8010003
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200311262104.hAQL4ICN024652
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40250AF7.3010804
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4022B5EF.4030807
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4023BF1C.6020008

Re: Any recommended PATA or SATA chip for kernel 2.6.x ?

[Mike Fedyk]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Kyle Wong wrote:
> 
> 
>>I found in the market that most PCI IDE card are using "siimage (CMD?),
>>HiPoint and IT8212 chip, are they working well with 2.6.x ?
> 

Hi!

> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1787

Any newer info from Jeff?

A lot can happen in three months... :-D

> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c?only_with_tag=MAIN#rev1.50
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?402F88AB.8010003
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200311262104.hAQL4ICN024652
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40250AF7.3010804
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4022B5EF.4030807
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4023BF1C.6020008

OK, I'll be sure to avoid the SiI3112A based boards.

Mike