On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:06:41PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:Any comparison with Silicon Image is false. The Silicon Image driver has been repeatedly stated (by me, the author) to be BROKEN. It is thusly marked with CONFIG_BROKEN.
Those who ignore the author stating the Silicon Image driver is _alpha_ and unfinished do so at their own risk.
Is this true for both the IDE driver and the SCSI driver?
Only the "scsi" driver, sata_sil. People do have some problems with the IDE driver siimage, but it is on the whole much more stable.
6. Has anybody used it in a non-root setup, having hda on the PATA interface? (The SI3112 causes lots of problems with I/O port and IRQ conflicts, requiring hours of tweaking of the boot parameters.)
PATA interfaces on Promise SATA are not yet supported.
Oh, I wasn't even aware that the Promise had any PATA slots. :) It's the builting PATA interface on the motherboard that I want to keep.
That's a different driver, then :)
Is the same driver used for the TX4 card? Checking my logs even the VIA driver seems to have problems running under Raid. Both Raid1 and Raid5 gives me corrupted files, unless I turn off DMA.
sata_promise is used for all known Promise SATA cards.
Which VIA driver are you referring to? And PATA or SATA? You need to be more specific :) The drivers/ide via82cxxx driver seems to work for PATA. The sata_via ("scsi") driver and the generic IDE driver work for VIA SATA, but people have reported problems on x86-64.
Jeff
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