Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:03:15 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Adaptec 1210SA SATA Controller Performance |
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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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