From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: areca RAID driver Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:44:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20060420064452.GP614@suse.de> References: <20060419155300.321c352e.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:35412 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192AbWDTGoW (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:44:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060419155300.321c352e.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , erich , billion.wu@areca.com.tw, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 19 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Gents, Erich thinks that the Areca driver is pretty much ready to go. > > We still have the weird read-past-EOF problem if MAX_XFER_SECTORS=4096, but > this version of the driver has it set to 512, which makes the problem go > away. I've suggested that we can set that problem aside for now. The hardware clearly just cannot handle that large a xfer size, so it should just be left at 512 until that problem is fully understood at Areca's end. -- Jens Axboe