From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Marvell 6141 support Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:46:42 -0400 Message-ID: <47EEAAB2.2060404@rtr.ca> References: <1205578981.3107.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47EE3DBF.4070300@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1122 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754444AbYC2Uqp (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:46:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47EE3DBF.4070300@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Micael Beronius , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > 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? .. Nope. No plans to, either. Cheers