Re: Linux SATA RAID FAQ

[Andrew Morton]

Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm currently trying to fix up the IT8212 which is an older PATA board
>  which does have real h/w raid 0/1

I'm sitting on the vendor's driver for these cards.  How does your work
differ from this?

hch questioned why we need the driver at all: just put the card in JBOD
mode and use s/w raid drivers.  But the thing does have an on-board CPU and
the idea is that by offloading to that, the data transits the bus just a
single time.  The developers are off doing some comparative benchmarking at
present.

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