Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:42:27 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | [PATCH] New QStor SATA/RAID Driver for 2.6.9-rc2 |
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My first attempt at posting this seems to have gone AWOL, so here it comes again. Also being posted to linux-scsi.
Here is the first public release of the 2.6.xx driver source code for the Pacific Digital Corporation QStor SATA/RAID chip.
This 4-channel chip has hardware-assisted RAID0/RAID1/RAID10, host-queuing, per-request TCQ/NCQ support, support for hot insertion and removal of drives, etc.. The 64-bit/66Mhz chip shows throughput in excess of 200MByte/sec on my ancient P3-1GHz test system, and can do much better when installed in a PCI-X slot.
The driver (attached) supports most of the chip features, including host, native and legacy tagged queuing, but does not yet include boot-from-raid support (coming soon).
Both hdparm and smartmontools are fully supported by this driver.
This patch is against linux-2.6.9-rc2.
Please email me any errors or corrections you may deem necessary for kernel inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy") [unhandled content-type:application/x-gzip] | |