From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264085AbUGIEiM (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:38:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264113AbUGIEiM (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:38:12 -0400 Received: from web13702.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.175.135]:54535 "HELO web13702.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264085AbUGIEiF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:38:05 -0400 Message-ID: <20040709043804.50539.qmail@web13702.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:38:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Martins Krikis Subject: [Announce] "iswraid" (ICH5R/ICH6R ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.26 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-announce@vger.kernel.org Cc: mkrikis@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <20040221024833.16640.qmail@web13707.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Version 0.1.4 of the Intel Sofware RAID driver (iswraid) is now available for the 2.4 series kernels at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/iswraid/2.4.26-libata-iswraid.patch.gz?download It is an ataraid "subdriver" but uses the SCSI subsystem to find the RAID member disks. It depends on the libata library, particularly the ata_piix driver that enables the Serial ATA capabilities in ICH5/ICH6 chipsets. The libata patch by Jeff Garzik should be applied before applying this patch. There is more information and some ICH6R related patches at the project's home page at http://iswraid.sourceforge.net/. The changes WRT version 0.1.3 are as follows: * a fix for CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems; * reasonable handling of missing disks; * when RAID1 goes degraded, the I/O succeeds; * new mode that does not fail degraded RAID1 ever; * metadata updates started from the scheduler's queue; * slab caches instead of kmalloc-s; * small /proc filesystem tweaks; * serial number extraction fixed; * unused disks properly freed; * added documentation file; * major style changes and more comments about implementation choices. If you have any questions or comments, please CC me directly because I no longer read this list. Martins Krikis Storage Components Division (SCD) Intel Massachusetts __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail