From: Daniel Brahneborg <daniel.com@wtnord.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Daniel Brahneborg <daniel.com@wtnord.net>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of Promise drivers?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:38:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031230213828.G14399@nettis.grimsta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FF1DF2B.3000501@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:25:15PM -0500
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:25:15PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Daniel Brahneborg wrote:
> > In short: First I went 100% scsi (except for / on hda) with sata_sil
> > and sata_via. This made my computer halt when I activated my second
> > network card (8139 + via-rhine or another 8139). Then I went 100% ide
> > with the via82cxxx and siimage drivers, which made the network cards
> > work. Disks on the VIA interface worked fine for simple file systems
> > but failed when used for Raid. Disks on the Silicon Image interface
> > failed both. It even got badblocks from the Ext2 suite to report tons
> > of failures. Smartmontools has no complaints, so the disks as such
> > are ok.
>
> I definitely recommend IDE siimage driver for Silicon Image SATA (though
> I will announce when my driver is fixed).
Not even the IDE driver handles raid correctly though, and the
badblocks thing was with that IDE driver. Is there any debug information
I can provide you with, in order to help you fix this?
> For VIA SATA, neither IDE nor libata program the chipset 100%, so I'm
> not surprised you're seeing failures. I'm working with VIA to get more
> details as we speak. They've been helpful so far. I would recommend
> sata_via over the generic IDE driver, but that's sorta a toss-up at present.
Good, I like companies that are helpful. What would you estimate
the time frame for working raid support to? 10 minutes? A week?
A month? Kernel 2.8?
/Basic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-30 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-30 19:00 Status of Promise drivers? Daniel Brahneborg
2003-12-30 19:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-30 19:24 ` Daniel Brahneborg
2003-12-30 19:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-30 20:18 ` Daniel Brahneborg
2003-12-30 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-30 20:38 ` Daniel Brahneborg [this message]
2003-12-30 23:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-10 15:14 ` Daniel Brahneborg
2003-12-30 20:21 ` Hendrik Visage
2003-12-30 20:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-03 18:23 ` Daniel Brahneborg
2004-02-04 15:02 ` Gunnlaugur Thor Briem
2004-02-06 21:13 ` Gunnlaugur Thor Briem
2003-12-30 23:21 ` Status of HighPoint / " Daniel Brahneborg
2003-12-30 23:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-30 23:55 ` jlewis
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