Hi Richard You could find out by doing the command # hdparm --Istdout /dev/hde which will print out the identify data and you could then look at what's at locations 0x60 to 0x63. -James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Powell" <rspowell@xxxxxxxxx> To: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions" <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: more info on sil.c's magic number Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:34:54 -0600 > > That would explain why my silraid doesn't work :) > > On 11/1/05, James Olson <big_spender12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Ooops I hit reply and it went to your email Molle so I am also forwarding > > it to the list. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "James Olson" <big_spender12@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: "Molle Bestefich" <molle.bestefich@xxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: more info on sil.c's magic number > > Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:55:03 -0500 > > > > > > > > Thanks Molle! > > > Yes, that needs to be changed. It will also fail to detect newer drives > > that have nonzero > > > values for the double-word transfers in 0x60 and 0x61. If you do an > > internet search for > > > medley.c, that 2.4 kernel driver source talks about it and they use the > > pci card vendor id and > > > device id fields instead to detect the metadata. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Molle Bestefich" <molle.bestefich@xxxxxxxxx> > > > To: big_spender12@xxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: more info on sil.c's magic number > > > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:04:02 +0100 > > > > > > > > > > > James Olson wrote: > > > > [ snip SIL metadata ] > > > > > > > > wow. nice work!! > > > > > > > > let's hope heinz sees this and comes up with a better magic for SIL. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow > > Pages > > > > > > > > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 > > > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow > > Pages > > > > > > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > -- > Richard Powell (richard@xxxxxxx) > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
