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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 23:09:31 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Justin Guyett <justin-lkml@soze.net>
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Subject: Re: mainline i2o issues with adaptec raid (was: i2o and adaptec
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Justin Guyett <justin-lkml@soze.net> wrote:
>
>  I just started toying with an adaptec i2o card, an Adaptec 2110s, and
>  for random reads and writes bonnie++ shows that the i2o driver is
>  somewhat slower than the dpt_i2o driver.

By reading your .config I was able to divine that you're running some 2.6
kernel ;)

There's an i2o rewrite in
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8-rc2/2.6.8-rc2-mm2/2.6.8-rc2-mm2.gz
- testing of that would be appreciated.