Re: Status of Promise drivers?

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Daniel Brahneborg wrote:
> 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?

Not really, I mainly need free time :)


>>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?

I would say "under a day"

	Jeff