Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932161AbWAQQef (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:34:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932169AbWAQQef (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:34:35 -0500 Received: from outgoing.smtp.agnat.pl ([193.239.44.83]:17683 "EHLO outgoing.smtp.agnat.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932161AbWAQQee convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:34:34 -0500 From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Organization: SelfOrganizing To: Sebastian Kuzminsky Subject: Re: sata_mv important note Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:34:25 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Linux Kernel References: <43CD07D5.30302@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601171734.25598.arekm@pld-linux.org> X-Authenticated-Id: arekm Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1107 Lines: 27 On Tuesday 17 January 2006 17:24, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > For sata_mv users, you should be aware of three things: > > > > 1) The Marvell driver is experimental, and not yet considered ready for > > production use. As Kconfig notes: HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. > > Right, understood. I'm using: 03:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6041 4-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 07) but with http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/FC3/mvSata-3.4.2a-patched.tbz driver and it works nicely (+ 2.8GHz Xeon HT, smp kernel). I was quite suprised to see that there are no problems with it in typical usage (while I'm sure that this driver is far away from kernel standards). -- Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz PLD/Linux Team http://www.t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl/~misiek/ http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ - 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/