Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:27:23 -0600 | From | Bob Glamm <> | Subject | Re: Adaptec 1210SA SATA Controller Performance |
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> >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.
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