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DateSat, 28 Feb 2004 02:03:15 -0500
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: Adaptec 1210SA SATA Controller Performance
Bob Glamm wrote:
>>>Yesterday I've setup a server with Adaptec's 1210SA SATA Controller and 
>>>2 SATA disks. According to the kernel changelog the controller is 
>>>supported since 2.6.2
>>>
>>>I've installed Debian on an IDE disk, built a 2.6.3 kernel with 
>>>CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL, rebooted and the kernel detected the controller 
>>>plus both SATA disks (sda, sdb). As the next step I wanted to create a 
>>>software raid 1 with the 2 SATA disks. Because it took mdadm forever to 
>>>finish, I checked /proc/mdstat and saw a progress bar with a rate of 
>>>12MB/s!
> 
> 
> More to the point, why didn't you just install a 2.4.18 kernel
> and use the Adaptec-supplied driver and the RAID-1 capabilities
> built into the card's firmware?  (Note, I'm not trying to disparage
> Jeff's work on libata here.)
> 
> I have this setup and it works flawlessly with a pair of 160GB
> SATA drives.

There are no RAID-1 capabilities built into the card's firmware :)

It's all software RAID.

	Jeff




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