From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031440AbWFOVd6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:33:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031448AbWFOVd6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:33:58 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:39055 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031440AbWFOVd5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:33:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4491D241.3040506@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:33:53 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gord Peters CC: Mark Lord , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list Subject: Re: SATA: Marvell 88SE6141 support? References: <44916C5B.5000402@rtr.ca> <44917BFE.1070604@garzik.org> <4491A90E.8010702@rtr.ca> <5351048D-59BA-4348-BB35-BDFFD3622BE8@smarttech.com> In-Reply-To: <5351048D-59BA-4348-BB35-BDFFD3622BE8@smarttech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.2 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gord Peters wrote: > At first I thought that only the Marvell SATA ports could be used for a > RAID (based on how they're labeled in the manual), but now I see that > either set of SATA ports can be used for RAID. So I may be able to set > my RAID up using the ICH7R based ports until the Marvell chip is > supported. Am I correct to believe that the Intel ICH7R chip is > supported in 2.6.16? Neither are hardware RAID. It's usually better to just use OS RAID. Jeff