On Thursday 29 April 2004 06:48, me@heyjay.com wrote: > Duncan, > > It is ITE 8212 (I'm not sure if it is an "F" though). The driver for > RedHat and Mandrake are available on giga-byte.com. When you say I'm out > of luck, what exactly does that mean? Well, let me spin my tale of woe :) I have a GA K8N-Pro board, with the ITE 8212F RAID chipset. Combined with the SATA connectors and the regular IDE, I can use 10 drives - in theory. I did a 32 bit FC1 install using the regular IDE drives, and then hooked up a pair of 120 GB drives to the RAID controller. Loaded the driver from ite.com.tw, and watched it do all sorts of funny things. Shrugged, powered down and removed the 120s. Fast forward a month or so, and I have the machine in the UK now (bought it in the US). Running Gentoo64, runs like a charm. Decide to poke the ITE driver again, this time under the 2.6 kernel. Had even worse results (search the Gentoo AMD 64 forum and you'll see other people having issues). Have tossed several logs at ITE, once I managed to convince them that they wrote the driver (!), seeing as it had their copyright on it. For a 2.4 series kernel, under 32 bit, you may have more luck than I have had. If I had more of a clue about drivers for kernels (and C in general), I'd tackle this and make the driver work. I don't, so I can't, unless I can convince someone other than ITE to scratch the itch. References: http://www.cricalix.net/ite.log - my most recent debug log of trying the driver. Note the 0 byte sector size and and lack of cache info. This was one of my better days with the driver. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=165932 - someone claiming that AMD's porting notes helped. I love his -1 sector size. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=155095 - other people (including self) having issues. http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.3/1187.html - someone on lkml who doesn't think much of the driver. And that spinlock is still there in the latest release - not knowing much about kernel module designs, I don't know if he's right or wrong. - 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
