From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262312AbUBXRB4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:01:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262309AbUBXRBs (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:01:48 -0500 Received: from smtp14.fre.skanova.net ([195.67.227.31]:46301 "EHLO smtp14.fre.skanova.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262296AbUBXRBn (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:01:43 -0500 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver References: <200402241110.07526.andrew@walrond.org> <20040224154446.GA28720@ee.oulu.fi> <403B73E3.80100@pobox.com> <200402241630.36105.andrew@walrond.org> <403B8028.1060700@pobox.com> Message-ID: From: Henrik Gustafsson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:00:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: <403B8028.1060700@pobox.com> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3144 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:47:36 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andrew Walrond wrote: >> I take it the software raid thing wasn't part of the gpl'ed driver, and >> isn't something that is likely to happen? > > > In 2.4, RAID0 and RAID1 are supported via the pdcraid driver. > > In 2.6, Promise software RAID support does not exist. In conversations > with Promise, we all agreed to encourage and support the standard Linux > RAID, md. > > Jeff Does that apply to the FastTrack S150 SX4 aswell? The hardware XOR-engine will not be used? What about the onboard cache? // Henrik Gustafsson