Re: PDC20268 TX2 support?

[Arjan van de Ven]

Chris Abbey wrote:
> 
> Today, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > the 2.4.19 timeframe. I'm curious what level of support folks are
> > > expecting? Just basic IDE, or support for the hardware raid features?
> >
> > What hardware raid features ?
> 
> The FastTraK 100 TX2 has hardware raid (stripe/mirror) support, they
> have a binary only driver (scsi/ft.o) which presents this array as
> a scsi device... this is the level of function I was hoping was being
> integrated.

that is not hardware raid but software raid.

> 
> > AFAIK their only cards with hardware raid features are the supertrak 100 and
> > SX6000.
> 

> The current 2.4.18 code recognizes the card and provides vanilla IDE
> access to the drives, unfortunately that isn't much use unless someone
> wants to try and RE their block allocation on the disks... a decidedly
> non-trivial endeavour I can assure you. ;(

It seems you missed the ATARAID stuff in the ide config..