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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Bob Glamm <glamm@a-s-i.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1210SA SATA Controller Performance
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:03:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40403D33.8050106@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040228042723.GA22033@romulus.a-s-i.com>

Bob Glamm wrote:
>>>Yesterday I've setup a server with Adaptec's 1210SA SATA Controller and 
>>>2 SATA disks. According to the kernel changelog the controller is 
>>>supported since 2.6.2
>>>
>>>I've installed Debian on an IDE disk, built a 2.6.3 kernel with 
>>>CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL, rebooted and the kernel detected the controller 
>>>plus both SATA disks (sda, sdb). As the next step I wanted to create a 
>>>software raid 1 with the 2 SATA disks. Because it took mdadm forever to 
>>>finish, I checked /proc/mdstat and saw a progress bar with a rate of 
>>>12MB/s!
> 
> 
> More to the point, why didn't you just install a 2.4.18 kernel
> and use the Adaptec-supplied driver and the RAID-1 capabilities
> built into the card's firmware?  (Note, I'm not trying to disparage
> Jeff's work on libata here.)
> 
> I have this setup and it works flawlessly with a pair of 160GB
> SATA drives.

There are no RAID-1 capabilities built into the card's firmware :)

It's all software RAID.

	Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-28  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-24 14:10 Adaptec 1210SA SATA Controller Performance Patrick Petermair
2004-02-24 16:06 ` Hugo Mills
2004-02-26  8:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-28  4:27   ` Bob Glamm
2004-02-28  7:03     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-03-04 15:40   ` Patrick Petermair
2004-03-04 18:18     ` Hugo Mills
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-26  9:14 Kyle Wong

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