From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262467AbTJGQPS (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:15:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262468AbTJGQPG (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:15:06 -0400 Received: from smtp1.freeserve.com ([193.252.22.158]:56114 "EHLO mwinf3002.me.freeserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262467AbTJGQOz (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:14:55 -0400 Message-ID: <30270451.1065543294483.JavaMail.www@wwinf3005> From: tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk Reply-To: tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk To: Mark Hahn Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] [2.4.XX] Silicon Image/CMD Medley Software RAID Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:14:54 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings Mark! I put linux-kernel back, in case someone else has ideas. > what controller does it have? the web page, sadly, doesn't give lspci output ;) I will check it (the card is at home and I am in the office) and let you know. >>From memory it was something like: "Silicon Image PCI0680" (or something like that) > > the correct term is "broken", not "slow". > Well, if it, as you say, works in "ata compatibility mode" and there is no specific driver (in Linux) then it is not broken but (currently, under Linux) just _very_ slow, until someone writes a specific driver for that chipset. But I am not interested in subtle semantics of "slow" vs "broken". All I want is for my data to arrive at the disk (and come back, sometimes) a bit faster! :) Kind regards Tigran