Dave, all,
Did you know about the DAC960 monitor utility? I just ran across it
in the SuSE install set. It's available from
http://varmon.sourceforge.net/
Looks like it's not being maintained anymore (and probably won't work
with the 2.5 driver yet?)
-- KevinDave Olien wrote: > > > > Let me know if you find any problems at all. I'll try to > address them. > > I think the biggest "imperfection" is just the coding style of > the whole driver. I might submit some patches over time to clean > up coding style. > > The next problem is that it doesn't handle media errors yet. > If you have a read or write failure because a sector on your disk > is bad, it fails the entire read or write. With all the coalescing > of requests that the block layer does, this might fail ALL of a > really large transfer just because one sector is bad. > > I'm working on a patch that retries failures section at a time, > so that the failure will be more closely limited to the sector > that is bad. > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:56:22PM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote: > > > Samium Gromoff... > > > > > <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > > > > > [PATCH] update to OSDL DAC960 driver > > > > > > > > > > Its not perfect but it works > > > > is it supposed to blow my data, or is it relatively safe to use? > > > > > > There have been a few poeple using this patch for about 5 versions of > > > 2.5 so far. I haven't done heavy testing myself, just booting and doing > > > some other testing of modules and drivers. I am running the DAC960 on > > > my root/boot filesystem and haven't seen any problems yet. > > thank you. i`ll join the 2.5 DAC user crowd soon then :-) > > > > --- > > regards, > > Samium Gromoff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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