Monitor utility (was Re: DAC960 at 2.5.50)

[Kevin Brosius <cobra@compuserve.com>]

Dave, all,
  Did you know about the DAC960 monitor utility?  I just ran across it
in the SuSE install set.  It's available from
http://varmon.sourceforge.net/

Looks like it's not being maintained anymore (and probably won't work
with the 2.5 driver yet?)

-- 
Kevin


Dave Olien wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Let me know if you find any problems at all.  I'll try to
> address them.
> 
> I think the biggest "imperfection" is just the coding style of
> the whole driver.  I might submit some patches over time to clean
> up coding style.
> 
> The next problem is that it doesn't handle media errors yet.
> If you have a read or write failure because a sector on your disk
> is bad, it fails the entire read or write. With all the coalescing
> of requests that the block layer does, this might fail ALL of a
> really large transfer just because one sector is bad.
> 
> I'm working on a patch that retries failures section at a time,
> so that the failure will be more closely limited to the sector
> that is bad.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:56:22PM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> >  > Samium Gromoff...
> > > > > <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> > > > >         [PATCH] update to OSDL DAC960 driver
> > > > >
> > > > >         Its not perfect but it works
> > > >    is it supposed to blow my data, or is it relatively safe to use?
> > >
> > > There have been a few poeple using this patch for about 5 versions of
> > > 2.5 so far.  I haven't done heavy testing myself, just booting and doing
> > > some other testing of modules and drivers.  I am running the DAC960 on
> > > my root/boot filesystem and haven't seen any problems yet.
> >   thank you. i`ll join the 2.5 DAC user crowd soon then :-)
> >
> > ---
> > regards,
> >    Samium Gromoff