linux-raid.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Greg Brackley" <greg.brackley-gmane@lucidsolutions.co.nz>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Highpoint 1820A
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:20:38 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dgm3cr$iv1$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.62.0509170714560.21650@uplift.swm.pp.se

"Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote in message 
news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0509170714560.21650@uplift.swm.pp.se...
> functioning and failing. Does anyone have a success story with this card 
> under linux?

I've generally had quite positive experiences with the card under FC3 and 
FC4 x86_64 using Linux software RAID 5 and the OpenBuild driver.  The driver 
has generally been quite good, however it doesn't appear to support SMART 
I/O controls.  I like to monitor SMART parameters so I can swap out disks 
before they catastrophically fail.

I have started using the now GNU licensed Marvell driver [1] with my 1820a. 
I haven't had a chance to benchmark it, however it works and it does support 
SMART I/O controls. It seems to require a full kernel source tree to build. 
I'm using it with FC4 x86_64.

In the future I am looking forward to using the Brett Russ libata Marvell 
driver that is going in the kernel. I haven't tried the PIO only driver.

Greg :-)

[1] http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/ 




      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-19 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-17  5:19 Highpoint 1820A Mikael Abrahamsson
2005-09-18  9:01 ` Tyler
2005-09-18  9:04 ` Tyler
2005-09-18 17:17   ` Norman Schmidt
2005-09-18 19:13     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2005-09-19 10:20 ` Greg Brackley [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='dgm3cr$iv1$1@sea.gmane.org' \
    --to=greg.brackley-gmane@lucidsolutions.co.nz \
    --cc=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).