Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:42:01 -0800 | From | Dave Olien <> | Subject | Re: DAC960 at 2.5.50 |
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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/ - 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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