From: Kallol Biswas <kallol@nucleodyne.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Chris Haumesser <chris@mail-test.us>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: promise sx8 sata driver
Date: 23 May 2005 23:16:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116909972.15027.3.camel@driver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42925F7F.2000809@pobox.com>
How good is 2.6.6 carmel.c driver for sx8 adapters? Does it support
the promise adapter? Why have you developed sx8.c?
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 15:55, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Chris Haumesser wrote:
> > The sx8 driver does not use libata, and it is a separate block device,
> > outside of the scsi and ata hierarchies. If I compile the driver into
> > my kernel, I end up with /dev/sx8/0 and /dev/sx8/0p1, etc. However, no
> > scsi disk devices are created, and grub does not recognize that
> > /dev/sx8/ devices are disks. There's no indication in /proc/scsi/ that
> > they are being registered with the scsi subsystem; this is clearly
> > different from every other sata controller I've used. I've been
> > googling this for days, with no real luck. I have found changelogs for
> > grub that suggest that my version (0.95) should support booting from the
> > sx8.
>
> sx8 is a separate block driver, and has nothing whatsoever to do with scsi.
>
>
> > So my question is, how does one use this driver for sata disks? Is my
> > problem a grub problem, or does it have something to do with the fact
>
> a grub problem
>
>
> > What is the relationship between the promise driver and the one included
> > in the kernel? Why does one work differently from the other? Is there
>
> Promise SX8 provides neither an ATA nor SCSI interface to the developer,
> so its not written as an ATA or SCSI driver.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-24 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-23 21:42 promise sx8 sata driver Chris Haumesser
2005-05-23 22:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-24 6:16 ` Kallol Biswas [this message]
2005-05-24 18:00 ` Chris Haumesser
2005-05-24 18:20 ` Jeff Garzik
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