From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: Booting from or using a Compaq RA4100 Array Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:18:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1135801791.9541.12.camel@gateway.markschaefer.org> <200512290845.17192@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> <62187.24.3.12.198.1135893081.squirrel@www.markschaefer.org> <200512292302.50743@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from vanessarodrigues.com ([192.139.46.150]:35771 "EHLO jaguar.mkp.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750929AbVL3WSR (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:18:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200512292302.50743@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> (Rolf Eike Beer's message of "Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:02:45 +0100") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Rolf Eike Beer Cc: mark@markschaefer.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Eike" == Rolf Eike Beer writes: [LUN mangling] Eike> I've looked around a bit in the LUN code some month ago as I was Eike> trying to get this to a state where it was sort of working. This Eike> code is as horrible as the rest of this driver, so I didn't Eike> really got the point what of this strange stuff is really needed Eike> and what was just caused by code monkeys on drugs. Yeah, I talked to James about this a while back and he said the only acceptable approach for dealing with deprecated TYPE_RAID devices would be to write an upper level driver. If you'd be interested in working on that, that'd be awesome. Eike> Now the driver is buried and all the people with such hardware Eike> come out of their holes. Fascinating :)) I was thinking about a Eike> list related only to these things and/or writing a FAQ for Eike> this. What do the other people around think about this? MKP? Sure. I'll try to conjure up a web page about cpqfcTS, RA4x00, and the current state of the tachyon nation. -- Martin K. Petersen http://mkp.net/