From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264411AbTLZA5n (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:57:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264414AbTLZA5n (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:57:43 -0500 Received: from mail.nvc.net ([64.68.160.43]:20484 "EHLO garbanzo.nvc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264411AbTLZA5m (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:57:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3FEB8785.6070404@dakotainet.net> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:57:41 -0600 From: merwan kashouty User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031221 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: mpt-fusion driver Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org i bought a new scsi controller , lsi21320 and was running 2.4.23 , after about 20 hrs the system became sluggish and then locked up... i switched back to a tekram u160 card i had and after a few days found this. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.3/0068.html in the messege is a link to a driver update released by lsi ftp://ftp.lsil.com/HostAdapterDrivers/linux/Fusion-MPT/2.05.10/mptlinux-2.05 so i applied the updated driver patch to my kernel recompiled and its been running great ever since.. very fast too.... Timing buffered disk reads: 316 MB in 3.02 seconds = 104.77 MB/sec could this possibly find its way into the 2.4.23 or atleast 2.4.24 if it isnt already. ciao merwan i am not a subscriber to the lkml so CC me if not to much trouble