Re: IDE Controllers

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 15:02:37 EST


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Yes PDC20246/PDC20262 are SMP safe.

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Edward Muller wrote:

> I was wondering which add in PCI IDE controllers are good to use and SMP safe
> with a 2.2.14 or 2.2.15 kernel. I did some looking for Ultra66 controllers and
> the only thing I could find that was supported was the Ultra66 from
> Promise. Checking on their site, they state the the driver is included with
> 2.2.10 and later, but in 2.2.15 I could not find a reference to an Ultra66
> driver in the kernel sources (or I was being very stupid :-) ). Plus, the driver
> that I downloaded from Promises website states that it isn't SMP safe.
>
> So to sum up a long story. I have four drives, using RAID and would like to
> migrate the two slaves to their own controllers (making them single/masters of
> course), both for performance reasons as well as RAID stability reasons.
>
>
> What PCI IDE controllers have good support in the stable (2.2.14/2.2.15) tree?
>
> --
> Edward Muller
> edwardam@home.com
> emuller@painewebber.com
>
>
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Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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