From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263936AbTKJQ0o (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:26:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263957AbTKJQ0o (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:26:44 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:45959 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263936AbTKJQ0m (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:26:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3FAFBC28.5000600@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:26:16 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Oliver M. Bolzer" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Success with Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 (Re: [BK PATCHES] libata fixes) References: <20031108172621.GA8041@gtf.org> <20031110095248.GA20497@magi.fakeroot.net> In-Reply-To: <20031110095248.GA20497@magi.fakeroot.net> 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 Oliver M. Bolzer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:26:21PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote... > > >> (03/11/06 1.1415) >> [libata] fix ugly Promise interrupt masking bug > > > This solved the last outstanding problem with the 4th drive and the > driver seems to find all drives and properly boot off them, at least > in a situation where no RAID-functionalty of the card is used. Great > Work. Thanks for testing. > # A first quick run of bonnie++ seems to show 2.6.0-test9+libata several > # %s slower then 2.4.22+ft3xx, but that might be related to differences > # between 2.4 and 2.6. One possibility is that queueing is not yet enabled in my sata_promise driver. Several of the SATA drivers support having multiple commands outstanding per driver (tagged command queueing), but I need to do a bit more work before I can enable queueing in the core. Jeff