Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271369AbTHHO3d (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:29:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271367AbTHHO3c (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:29:32 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28588 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271369AbTHHO31 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:29:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3F33B3B9.7030905@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:29:13 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Watts CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Innovision EIO DM-8301H/R SATA cards... References: <200308081408.16564.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> <3F33A3EB.9030108@pobox.com> <200308081511.28238.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> In-Reply-To: <200308081511.28238.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1087 Lines: 42 Mark Watts wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > >>Mark Watts wrote: >> >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> >>>My local supplier has started doing some SATA cards.... >>> >>>http://www.ivmm.com/eio/products_sata_pci_host.html >>> >>> >>>The chip on the board i the screenshot looks vaguely like a Silicon Image >>>chip - - am I correct in thinking that these are supported in linux? >> >>If they are Silicon Image, yes, they are supported. > > > Great stuff - can someone confirm whether I still need to do the folloing for > the latest 2.4.22 kernels in order to get good performance? > > # hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdX > # echo "max_kb_per_request:15" > /proc/.ide/hdX/settings I have no idea :( I'm off in libata land, which will soon support Silicon Image SATA as well... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/