Arjan, Alan: I didn't know that dmraid supports MegaIDE nowadays. Thanks for the tipoff, and I apologize for the unnecessary traffic. I'll look into dmraid.
--D Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-07-21 at 15:37 -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > >>I've noticed what might be a small bug with the serverworks driver in >>2.6.12.3. The IBM HS20 blade has a ServerWorks CSB6 IDE controller with >>an optional LSI MegaIDE RAID BIOS (BIOS assisted software raid, iow). > > > With a binary only proprietary driver. > > >>(ServerWorks) to IBM. However, the serverworks driver doesn't notice >>this and will attach to the controller anyway, thus allowing raw access >>to the disks in the RAID. An unsuspecting user can then read and write >>whatever they want to the drive, which could very well degrade or >>destroy the array, which is clearly not desirable behavior. > > > It may be appropriate for some vendor situations but it isn't > appropriate for the base kernel to default to assuming the user wants to > use binary only drivers instead of dmraid. Especially as the raid > formats for this hardware are partially known despite no assistance I > know of from the vendor. > > Alan > >
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature