On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:25:15PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Daniel Brahneborg wrote: > > In short: First I went 100% scsi (except for / on hda) with sata_sil > > and sata_via. This made my computer halt when I activated my second > > network card (8139 + via-rhine or another 8139). Then I went 100% ide > > with the via82cxxx and siimage drivers, which made the network cards > > work. Disks on the VIA interface worked fine for simple file systems > > but failed when used for Raid. Disks on the Silicon Image interface > > failed both. It even got badblocks from the Ext2 suite to report tons > > of failures. Smartmontools has no complaints, so the disks as such > > are ok. > > I definitely recommend IDE siimage driver for Silicon Image SATA (though > I will announce when my driver is fixed). Not even the IDE driver handles raid correctly though, and the badblocks thing was with that IDE driver. Is there any debug information I can provide you with, in order to help you fix this? > For VIA SATA, neither IDE nor libata program the chipset 100%, so I'm > not surprised you're seeing failures. I'm working with VIA to get more > details as we speak. They've been helpful so far. I would recommend > sata_via over the generic IDE driver, but that's sorta a toss-up at present. Good, I like companies that are helpful. What would you estimate the time frame for working raid support to? 10 minutes? A week? A month? Kernel 2.8? /Basic - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
