Re: [Announce] "iswraid" (ICH5R/ICH6R ataraid sub-driver) for2.4.28-pre3

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Oct 10 2004 - 14:23:09 EST


On Sad, 2004-10-09 at 21:44, Martins Krikis wrote:
> It is an ataraid "subdriver" but uses the SCSI subsystem to find the
> RAID member disks. It depends on the libata library, particularly the
> ata_piix driver that enables the Serial ATA capabilities in ICH5/ICH6
> chipsets. Hence, for kernels older than 2.4.28, the libata patch by
> Jeff Garzik should be applied before applying this patch.

This seems to make sense to me - for 2.6 we have the DM layer, for 2.4
we've used the ataraid stuff.


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