Hi there.
It seemes that I'm a lucky one. I have an A7V, with promise 20265 onboard, and it works fine using the included driver (0.03 beta) in 2.4x kernels. I'm also booting from it with lilo. (it used to work with 2.2.y AC also) (debian) (for you, unlucky ones: there should be a solution...)
There's only one problem I have: speed.
I tried even setting /dev/hde,hdg (they're the "striped" volumes) with hdparm, but there was no recognizable speed increase. It looks like everything's fine, drives are using UDMA-4, so on.
I'd like to get at least around 40MB/s stable throughput, to make it possible to record and play uncompressed PAL video. What I get now is around a single disk's performance. It's just not enough. (and I don't think I'll ever have the money for a real disk array) By some complicated reasons (M$) I can't use pure swraid either.
Any ideas?
radafuk
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I have:
ASUS a7v133, with onboard promise 20265. Fasttrack "speed" bios. 2*Maxtor 54098U8 disks, 2Mb cache
bonnie++ says:
------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
744M 8281 97 39438 23 11558 8 7561 91 29143 12 238.9 1
------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
-Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
16 1271 93 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 1607 96 +++++ +++