"Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0509170714560.21650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > functioning and failing. Does anyone have a success story with this card > under linux? I've generally had quite positive experiences with the card under FC3 and FC4 x86_64 using Linux software RAID 5 and the OpenBuild driver. The driver has generally been quite good, however it doesn't appear to support SMART I/O controls. I like to monitor SMART parameters so I can swap out disks before they catastrophically fail. I have started using the now GNU licensed Marvell driver [1] with my 1820a. I haven't had a chance to benchmark it, however it works and it does support SMART I/O controls. It seems to require a full kernel source tree to build. I'm using it with FC4 x86_64. In the future I am looking forward to using the Brett Russ libata Marvell driver that is going in the kernel. I haven't tried the PIO only driver. Greg :-) [1] http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
