Re: kernel 2.6t9 SATA slower than 2.4.20

[Arve Knudsen <aknuds-1@broadpark.no>]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:15:29 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:36:37PM +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:59:17 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:56:31AM -0800, Shaun Savage wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>Are you using CONFIG_SCSI_SATA in 2.6?
>> >>
>> >>No, but I am trying now.
>> >>GREAT is works,
>> >>but the disk went from hda back to hde
>> >
>> >hmmm, with CONFIG_SCSI_SATA your SATA drives should show up as
>> > /dev/sda not /dev/hde ...
>> >
>> >So, you're still using the drivers/ide driver, it appears.
>> >
>> >Regardless, it's most important to use what works for you ;-)
>> >
>> Excuse me, there's probably something I'm missing, but how do I use the
>> SCSI_SATA driver for SiI 3112? I see the source file for it in the 
>> kernel
>> tree (test9), but no option for it in menuconfig (I've enabled SATA 
>> under
>> SCSI). Enabling the SiI SATA driver under ATA/ATAPI... compiles in the 
>> old
>> driver am I right?
>
> For SiI, it requires CONFIG_BROKEN, because, well, the libata SiI
> is "very alpha quality" right now ;-)
>
Ok, thanks. So I might be better off with the older driver for now? From 
what I remember Andre Hedrick was promising a fix?

Regards

Arve Knudsen