From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Status of Promise drivers? Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:38:58 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FF20C92.9060700@pobox.com> References: <20031230200012.C14399@nettis.grimsta> <3FF1CCC1.3050304@pobox.com> <20031230202447.D14399@nettis.grimsta> <3FF1D8AE.2000107@pobox.com> <20031230211826.F14399@nettis.grimsta> <3FF1DF2B.3000501@pobox.com> <20031230213828.G14399@nettis.grimsta> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20031230213828.G14399@nettis.grimsta> To: Daniel Brahneborg Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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