Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:35:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:35:28 -0400 Received: from 24.159.204.122.roc.nc.chartermi.net ([24.159.204.122]:39440 "EHLO tweedle.cabbey.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:35:28 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:33:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Abbey X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: PDC20268 TX2 support? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Today, Alan Cox wrote: > > the 2.4.19 timeframe. I'm curious what level of support folks are > > expecting? Just basic IDE, or support for the hardware raid features? > > What hardware raid features ? The FastTraK 100 TX2 has hardware raid (stripe/mirror) support, they have a binary only driver (scsi/ft.o) which presents this array as a scsi device... this is the level of function I was hoping was being integrated. > AFAIK their only cards with hardware raid features are the supertrak 100 and > SX6000. The fasttrak also has hardware raid, while it works, it works realtively well. The current 2.4.18 code recognizes the card and provides vanilla IDE access to the drives, unfortunately that isn't much use unless someone wants to try and RE their block allocation on the disks... a decidedly non-trivial endeavour I can assure you. ;( -- Never make a technical decision based upon the politics of the situation. Never make a political decision based upon technical issues. The only place these realms meet is in the mind of the unenlightened. -- Geoffrey James, The Zen of Programming - 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/