David Schultz wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004, Sren Schmidt wrote: > >>David Schultz wrote: >> >>>The ata driver has not worked with my hardware for months, as I >>>reported to you last September. With Doug's patches, things work >>>perfectly. Therefore, I'd really appreciate it if you gave more >>>consideration to his work. I would be happy to help merge them >>>with your changes if you'll allow me. >> >>What is your exact problem again ? I dont recall the details and my mail >>archive is not online sorry.. > > > I have two SATA drives that are mirrored via ccd(4). The > mirroring apparently introduced some sort of race that led to > problems, which started when ATAng was committed. The specific > symptoms changed as the ata driver evolved, and varied from kernel > panics in the best case and data corruption in the worst case. > But the details of the problem aren't as important as the fact > that some aspect of Doug's patch fixes them! Have you considered using atacontrol to create an ATA RAID instead ? Does that work ? on an unpatched kernel ? -- -SørenReceived on Wed May 05 2004 - 10:58:39 UTC
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