Re: IT8212 in 2.6.9-ac6 no raid 0 or raid 1

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Nov 10 2004 - 14:23:34 EST


On Mer, 2004-11-10 at 15:15, Robert Toole wrote:
> I installed -ac7 yesterday, and have been testing for 24 hours now with
> no problems. (It's way better than the scsi hack from ITE) There is just
> one thing, the driver did not enable DMA by default, needless to say
> performance was awful. I turned it on with hdparm and everything appears
> ok. Is this by design due to the experimental nature of the driver?

Ah that is a bug. Please send me more info - drive info, hdparm etc.

>
> I am testing by copying about 400 mb of files from one folder to another
> on the raid array, over and over again. Is there a howto or test
> software out there for better method to *really* hammer on the driver?

Just use it. Its been hammered a lot as part of my testing but the
moment other people just use it it breaks ;)

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