From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Status of Promise drivers? Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:27:04 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FF1DF98.7000600@pobox.com> References: <20031230200012.C14399@nettis.grimsta> <3FF1CCC1.3050304@pobox.com> <20031230202447.D14399@nettis.grimsta> <3FF1D8AE.2000107@pobox.com> <20031230202146.GL16346@hvs.envisage.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20031230202146.GL16346@hvs.envisage.co.za> To: Hendrik Visage Cc: Daniel Brahneborg , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hendrik Visage wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:57:34PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Which VIA driver are you referring to? And PATA or SATA? You need to >>be more specific :) The drivers/ide via82cxxx driver seems to work for >>PATA. The sata_via ("scsi") driver and the generic IDE driver work for >>VIA SATA, but people have reported problems on x86-64. > > > Hi Jeff, what type of problems have been seen on x86-64 and sata_via? > > Haven't had much trouble personaly yet... For some people it flat-out doesn't work at all :) This might be a problem with the x86-64 iommu though... Typically with sata_via, it either works 100%, or it doesn't work at all. (it works for most people, but as we see with Daniel there are still some problems) Jeff