From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262104AbUKJTUZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:20:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262102AbUKJTUY (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:20:24 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:61649 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262104AbUKJTTv (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:19:51 -0500 Subject: Re: IT8212 in 2.6.9-ac6 no raid 0 or raid 1 From: Alan Cox To: Robert Toole Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4192308C.3060100@kuehne-nagel.com> References: <418FE1B3.8020203@kuehne-nagel.com> <1099956451.14146.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4192308C.3060100@kuehne-nagel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1100110612.20556.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:16:53 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2004-11-10 at 15:15, Robert Toole wrote: > I installed -ac7 yesterday, and have been testing for 24 hours now with > no problems. (It's way better than the scsi hack from ITE) There is just > one thing, the driver did not enable DMA by default, needless to say > performance was awful. I turned it on with hdparm and everything appears > ok. Is this by design due to the experimental nature of the driver? Ah that is a bug. Please send me more info - drive info, hdparm etc. > > I am testing by copying about 400 mb of files from one folder to another > on the raid array, over and over again. Is there a howto or test > software out there for better method to *really* hammer on the driver? Just use it. Its been hammered a lot as part of my testing but the moment other people just use it it breaks ;)