From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Marvell 6141 support Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:01:51 +0900 Message-ID: <47EE3DBF.4070300@gmail.com> References: <1205578981.3107.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.168]:31496 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750918AbYC2NCU (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:02:20 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so629086wff.4 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:02:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Micael Beronius Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Mark Lord Micael Beronius wrote: > Andy Sturrock sturrock.org> writes: > >> Hi Jeff, >> >> The patch you submitted back in May 2007 you called "Add Marvell 6141 >> .. > >> Initially all seems fine, I can see the attached drives in /dev and >> fdisk and mkfs.ext3 seem to work OK. >> Then I tried putting the drives into a RAID 5 array using >> mdadm and it all went pear-shaped - see output from dmesg etc attached. > > > Hi Andy, I am not Jeff, unforturnately... :) But I just wanted to confirm that > what you have seen is exactly what I learned and posted last summer (2007-08-04 > 10:11:48 GMT). At the time, I tried all kernels and branches I could get my > hands on. > > Also I would not mind helping, but similar to you, I have not any knowledge > about the sata subsystem. But I can certainly test etc. > > In order to get into trouble, it seams that exercising more than one disk at > the same time on the interface "does it". - i.e. one doesn't have to go raid. Mark is currently working on improving sata_mv support. Mark, are you working on ahci flavored marvells too? -- tejun