From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: libata Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:13:22 +0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <402F2A22.8080204@wasp.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids G'day all. I have a pair of HPT1540 SATA cards that I'm currently using with the Highpoint supplied driver (Sans raid proprietary binary - Complete source compile) on a 2.4 kernel. I have been looking at libata as I'd like to move to an in-kernel driver and I'm having issues with the in-kernel hpt366 ide driver. Plus, given all my drives are in Supermicro Hotswap bays I'm hoping that one day we may realise seamless hotswap and I can swap out faulty software raid disks on the fly and I guess libata is the best way to work towards this :p) I think I get the idea of how libata goes together and I'd like to have a crack at writing a sata_hpt module. Has anyone done any ground work on this or is already working on it or do I start from scratch? Are there any known reasons as to why it will / will not work or anything else that would preclude me from getting it going? Is there a better place to discuss this? Regards, Brad