From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Strauss Subject: Re: Raid 1 install revealed poor HD performance (I think) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:43:43 -0500 Message-ID: <428D40CF.5040808@heyjay.com> References: <428A09A3.9000802@heyjay.com> <428A81FB.1070201@home.se> <428CB19B.8010402@heyjay.com> <428CBB4A.8080900@h3c.com> <428CDD96.2070006@heyjay.com> <428CFA71.6040202@h3c.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <428CFA71.6040202@h3c.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Hardy Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mike Hardy wrote: > > Jay Strauss wrote: > > >>Thanks for the reply Mike. After some Googling and looking at my kernel >>config file, it seems that SIS support is a module, like so: >> >>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=m >> >>I found this link but can't find any of the files that it references >> >>http://kerneltrap.org/comment/reply/4925/129324 > > > That message looks like the trick - the module doesn't have the right > PCI id for some reason, assuming you have the same chip > > You may not have the kernel source, if you can't find the file with > locate. You'll need to fetch the kernel source first, then build a > custom kernel with that line changed. > > This issue came up with my laptop when I first got it - a Dell Latitude > D800, it has an intel 5705M chipset that was supportable but had a new > PCI id and so didn't work. The custom kernel was a bit of a pain, but it > did work, and the patch made its way upstream really quickly. You can > help that along by posting it to linux-kernel even, most likely > (assuming it works) > > If not, I will say that this is probably something that should be on > linux-ide at this point, as it really has nothing to do with raid > specifically other than this being a decent place to find folks trying > to help. The linux-ide folks will be closer to the code you're working > with so might be more capable > > -Mike Thanks everyone for contributing. I very much appreciate the help. I'll bring this over to the linux-ide as Mike suggests Again thanks Jay