From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262674AbTJCTXL (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:23:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262675AbTJCTXL (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:23:11 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:40145 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262674AbTJCTXJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:23:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3F7DCC84.9040909@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:22:44 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugo Mills CC: "Kevin P. Fleming" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata support for Adaptec 1205SA? References: <3F7D9C83.4050200@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <20031003174018.GA6628@carfax.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031003174018.GA6628@carfax.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hugo Mills wrote: > I don't know for certain, *but* the AAR-1210SA definitely uses the > SiI3112 chip (slightly mangled), and I'd be surprised if Adaptec used > a different chip for the 1205SA. There's a picture of the 1210SA card that's my suspicion too. >>Does anyone here know, and more importantly, is libata ready to >>support it? I want to build a 6-drive SATA RAID using software RAID 5 >>(can't just the expense of a 3ware card for this application), so I >>need to add four ports to the two already present on an ICH5 on the >>motherboard. > > > AFAIK, libata doesn't support SiI3112 yet. Jeff has promised it at > some point -- possibly as the next SATA chip to support. The driver is posted in the latest snapshot, but it's only for developer use right now... need to acknowledge a few more interrupt events :) Jeff