From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261994AbUKJPTr (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:19:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261978AbUKJPSl (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:18:41 -0500 Received: from ptr-207-54-98-202.ptr.terago.ca ([207.54.98.202]:32014 "EHLO nagios.knad.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261843AbUKJPPz (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:15:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4192308C.3060100@kuehne-nagel.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:15:24 -0700 From: Robert Toole User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: IT8212 in 2.6.9-ac6 no raid 0 or raid 1 References: <418FE1B3.8020203@kuehne-nagel.com> <1099956451.14146.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1099956451.14146.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2004-11-08 at 21:14, Robert Toole wrote: > >>Alan, thanks for your work on the ITE8212 controllers. >> >>Just tried your ac-6 patch for 2.6.9 on my embedded Raid controller. >>with the controller set up in normal (No raid mode) everything is good. >> >>When I try raid 0 or 1, I get the INVALID GEOMETRY: 0 PHYSICAL HEADS? >>error, and the raid device is not accessible after boot. > > > RAID needs -ac7 which I'll post tomorrow. Bartlomiej found a bug in the > -ac7 draft code when I submitted it for 2.6.10rc merging so it slipped a > day. > > Alan > > I installed -ac7 yesterday, and have been testing for 24 hours now with no problems. (It's way better than the scsi hack from ITE) There is just one thing, the driver did not enable DMA by default, needless to say performance was awful. I turned it on with hdparm and everything appears ok. Is this by design due to the experimental nature of the driver? I am testing by copying about 400 mb of files from one folder to another on the raid array, over and over again. Is there a howto or test software out there for better method to *really* hammer on the driver? Thanks, Robert Toole