linux-kernel - RE: Generic Disk Driver in Linux

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Message-ID: <20060825165017.75036.qmail@web83105.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:50:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Aleksey Gorelov <dared1st@...oo.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de, daniel.rodrick@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@...linux.org,
	linux-newbie@...r.kernel.org, satinder.jeet@...il.com
Subject: RE: Generic Disk Driver in Linux



--- Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:21 -0700, Aleksey Gorelov wrote:
> > 
> > --- Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > it'll be easier and quicker to rev engineer 5 more formats than it will
> > > > > be to get the bios thing working ;) And the performance of the bios
> > > > probably true - I'm actually not great fan of originally proposed approach. But, 
> > > > unfortunately, manufactures and vendors still look more to MS. Until market 
> > > > situation changes, there is always a gap...
> > > 
> > > there are only so many different ways to describe raid0.
> > > And those companies aren't going to keep changing that "just because",
> > > changing costs them money, so there is an incentive for them to keep it
> > > as is
> > 
> > Bottom line is - today there is lack of support for it, 
> 
> can you name one?
> (so far all you did was claim this but not name even one)
> 
Here is a good support status
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
you can start with those who has proprietary binary only drivers.

I should admit though, that dmraid support has improved lately. For instance, 
they recently added Adaptec support, which has not been there before.

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