> <[email protected]>
> [PATCH] update to OSDL DAC960 driver
>
> Its not perfect but it works
is it supposed to blow my data, or is it relatively safe to use?
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regards,
Samium Gromoff
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> Samium Gromoff...
> > <[email protected]>
> > [PATCH] update to OSDL DAC960 driver
> >
> > Its not perfect but it works
> is it supposed to blow my data, or is it relatively safe to use?
There have been a few poeple using this patch for about 5 versions of
2.5 so far. I haven't done heavy testing myself, just booting and doing
some other testing of modules and drivers. I am running the DAC960 on
my root/boot filesystem and haven't seen any problems yet.
--
Kevin
> Samium Gromoff...
> > > <[email protected]>
> > > [PATCH] update to OSDL DAC960 driver
> > >
> > > Its not perfect but it works
> > is it supposed to blow my data, or is it relatively safe to use?
>
> There have been a few poeple using this patch for about 5 versions of
> 2.5 so far. I haven't done heavy testing myself, just booting and doing
> some other testing of modules and drivers. I am running the DAC960 on
> my root/boot filesystem and haven't seen any problems yet.
thank you. i`ll join the 2.5 DAC user crowd soon then :-)
---
regards,
Samium Gromoff
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Let me know if you find any problems at all. I'll try to
address them.
I think the biggest "imperfection" is just the coding style of
the whole driver. I might submit some patches over time to clean
up coding style.
The next problem is that it doesn't handle media errors yet.
If you have a read or write failure because a sector on your disk
is bad, it fails the entire read or write. With all the coalescing
of requests that the block layer does, this might fail ALL of a
really large transfer just because one sector is bad.
I'm working on a patch that retries failures section at a time,
so that the failure will be more closely limited to the sector
that is bad.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:56:22PM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > Samium Gromoff...
> > > > <[email protected]>
> > > > [PATCH] update to OSDL DAC960 driver
> > > >
> > > > Its not perfect but it works
> > > is it supposed to blow my data, or is it relatively safe to use?
> >
> > There have been a few poeple using this patch for about 5 versions of
> > 2.5 so far. I haven't done heavy testing myself, just booting and doing
> > some other testing of modules and drivers. I am running the DAC960 on
> > my root/boot filesystem and haven't seen any problems yet.
> thank you. i`ll join the 2.5 DAC user crowd soon then :-)
>
> ---
> regards,
> Samium Gromoff
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Actually the thing (DAC960-PL, one ibm 10k rpm drive) just booted up and
worked like a charm. Indeed it`s not a hardcore setup, yet i`m happy
anyway :-)
Although i`ll keep running 2.4 until alsa isapnp breakage will get fixed up.
Anyhow thank you for the finally working driver which finally enabled me
to check bloody 2.5 at home :-)
regards, Samium Gromoff