[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen Bolderoff) writes: > However - this card/driver is known to break when using more than 1 > drive at a time (ie accessing 2 or 3 drives at once)
I only have experience with the SATA150 TX4 (which uses the same driver), but it quite obviously breaks somewhere between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11. Several people have been reporting problems with sata_promise, using several disks simultaneously with a kernel later than 2.6.10. Moving the entire SCSI/libata code from 2.6.10 into a more recent kernel (i tried 2.6.12.3) works fine, and appears to fix the bug. So the bug should be in SCSI/libata somewhere (but I guess this was obvious anyway...). It would be great indeed if someone with a system that exhibits the problem and some time to spare could try moving SCSI/libata code piece by piece from 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 to try to pinpoint which change introduced the problem. (Does anyone have any better ideas?) (The changes in sata_promise between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 are very small -- the only significant changes appear to be some added PCI ids, a writel() added in pdc_interrupt(), and the addition and handling of the pci_dev_busy flag -- but I assume that the bug could as well hide elsewhere in the SCSI/libata code.) Thorild Selén Datorföreningen Update / Update Computer Club, Uppsala, SE - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
