Re: long raidctl initialization times

[Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:17:52 +0100, Niall James O'Higgins <njo@sig11.com> wrote:

> You actually didn't include the part of the dmesg which gives the
> mode the disk is in fact using.

# dmesg | grep wd0
wd0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <WDC WD740GD-00FLAG0>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 70911MB, 145226112 sectors
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
# dmesg | grep pciide
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 6300ESB SATA" rev 0x02: DMA
(unsupported), channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1
configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0
wd0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <WDC WD740GD-00FLAG0>
wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1: <WDC WD740GD-00FLAG0>

> Perhaps the controller you are using isn't supported properly by the
> kernel yet; a driver might need to be written.

After posting to tech about adding support for the 6300ESB and noting
that Linux patches used the ICH5 driver for the 6300ESB, tedu was kind
enough to post a patch to pciide.c adding the 6300ESB device ID's to
the ICH5 driver.

I'm going to test it shortly and report back.

PS - sorry I accidentally replied directly to you, Niall, and not the list.