Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-07 Thread Martins Krikis
Martins Krikis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do realize that Intel should have asked a long time ago for it > to be considered for acceptance (I did ask back in October for > 2.4.28). Sorry about all the noise, but I just remembered some other important aspects that played a ro

Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-07 Thread Martins Krikis
and if substantial amount of users will benefit from it." So here is a "new driver" (that's been around for a while) which I don't think can break anything. As to the "substantial amount of users", the two SourceForge releases with download statistics have each seen about 800 do

Re: [ANNOUNCE] iswraid (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-07 Thread Martins Krikis
) which I don't think can break anything. As to the substantial amount of users, the two SourceForge releases with download statistics have each seen about 800 downloads, I have no idea whether that counts as substantial. Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts

Re: [ANNOUNCE] iswraid (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-07 Thread Martins Krikis
Martins Krikis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do realize that Intel should have asked a long time ago for it to be considered for acceptance (I did ask back in October for 2.4.28). Sorry about all the noise, but I just remembered some other important aspects that played a role here. Intel

[PATCH 2.4.29] libata: fix ata_piix on ICH6R in RAID mode

2005-02-01 Thread Martins Krikis
are available and the regular IDE driver has picked them up already). Signed-off-by: Martins Krikis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.4.29/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c 2005-01-25 20:55:41.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.4.29-iswraid/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c 2005-02-01 20:23:51.0 -0500 @@ -

[PATCH 2.4.29] libata: fix ata_piix on ICH6R in RAID mode

2005-02-01 Thread Martins Krikis
are available and the regular IDE driver has picked them up already). Signed-off-by: Martins Krikis [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.4.29/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c 2005-01-25 20:55:41.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.4.29-iswraid/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c 2005-02-01 20:23:51.0 -0500 @@ -3597,7

Re: [RFC PATCH 2.4] ata_piix on ich6r in RAID mode

2005-01-28 Thread Martins Krikis
--- Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martins Krikis wrote: > > Without this patch, if the BIOS of an ICH6R box has IDE set to > "RAID" > > mode then ata_piix will not find any SATA disks because it > incorrectly > > tries the legacy mode. With t

[ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-01-28 Thread Martins Krikis
more customizable. * Some code cleanup and optimization. * Documentation changes. Please consider this driver for inclusion in the 2.4 kernel tree. Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts P.S. I've CC-d directly to the potential reviewers suggested a few months ago

[RFC PATCH 2.4] ata_piix on ich6r in RAID mode

2005-01-28 Thread Martins Krikis
egacy mode. With the patch all 4 SATA drives become visible. I don't think it would break any other vendor's SATA, but you can be the judge of that. If so, perhaps we can restrict the test some more by checking vendor/device IDs. Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts

[PATCH, 2.4] fix an oops in ata_to_sense_error

2005-01-28 Thread Martins Krikis
Jeff, This fixes an occasional oops in the libata-scsi code. Martins Krikis --- linux-2.4.29/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c 2005-01-28 12:07:56.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.4.29-iswraid/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c 2005-01-28 12:14:43.0 -0500 @@ -283,7 +283,8 @@ void

[PATCH, 2.4] fix an oops in ata_to_sense_error

2005-01-28 Thread Martins Krikis
Jeff, This fixes an occasional oops in the libata-scsi code. Martins Krikis --- linux-2.4.29/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c 2005-01-28 12:07:56.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.4.29-iswraid/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c 2005-01-28 12:14:43.0 -0500 @@ -283,7 +283,8 @@ void

[RFC PATCH 2.4] ata_piix on ich6r in RAID mode

2005-01-28 Thread Martins Krikis
. With the patch all 4 SATA drives become visible. I don't think it would break any other vendor's SATA, but you can be the judge of that. If so, perhaps we can restrict the test some more by checking vendor/device IDs. Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts --- linux

[ANNOUNCE] iswraid (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-01-28 Thread Martins Krikis
and optimization. * Documentation changes. Please consider this driver for inclusion in the 2.4 kernel tree. Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts P.S. I've CC-d directly to the potential reviewers suggested a few months ago by Marcelo. I'll appreciate any

Re: [RFC PATCH 2.4] ata_piix on ich6r in RAID mode

2005-01-28 Thread Martins Krikis
--- Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martins Krikis wrote: Without this patch, if the BIOS of an ICH6R box has IDE set to RAID mode then ata_piix will not find any SATA disks because it incorrectly tries the legacy mode. With the patch all 4 SATA drives become visible. I don't

Re: iswraid and 2.4.x?

2005-01-18 Thread Martins Krikis
--- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just curious. Is there already a possibility to use > RAID10 metadata in 2.6.x kernels? I don't think so, but provided that dm supports RAID10 it should be quite easy to get there. Martins Krikis (not speaking for

Re: iswraid and 2.4.x?

2005-01-18 Thread Martins Krikis
I'll let everybody know, of course. Thanks, Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &quo

iswraid and 2.4.x?

2005-01-18 Thread Martins Krikis
eek I'm planning to have a new version that adds RAID10 support for the ICH7R-based machines. Please let me know what my options are (if any) regarding getting iswraid in 2.4. Thanks very much, Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts _

iswraid and 2.4.x?

2005-01-18 Thread Martins Krikis
version that adds RAID10 support for the ICH7R-based machines. Please let me know what my options are (if any) regarding getting iswraid in 2.4. Thanks very much, Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts __ Do You Yahoo

Re: iswraid and 2.4.x?

2005-01-18 Thread Martins Krikis
, Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: iswraid and 2.4.x?

2005-01-18 Thread Martins Krikis
--- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just curious. Is there already a possibility to use RAID10 metadata in 2.6.x kernels? I don't think so, but provided that dm supports RAID10 it should be quite easy to get there. Martins Krikis (not speaking for my employer