From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Micael Beronius <micael.beronius@abc.se>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Marvell 6141 support
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:46:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EEAAB2.2060404@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EE3DBF.4070300@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Micael Beronius wrote:
>> Andy Sturrock <linux-kernel <at> 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?
..
Nope. No plans to, either.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-29 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-15 11:03 Marvell 6141 support Andy Sturrock
2008-03-24 7:57 ` Micael Beronius
2008-03-29 13:01 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-29 20:46 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-04-03 6:30 ` Micael Beronius
2008-04-03 7:55 ` Tejun Heo
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