Re: What happened to the it821x IDE/PCI Raid driver?

["G.Wolfe Woodbury" <ggw wolves homeip net>]

On Wed, 25 May 2005 18:26:16 -0400, Alan shaped electrons to write:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:22:49PM -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
>> In the 2.6.10 series of kernels, Alan Cox' IT821x PCI/IDE-RAID driver
>> was included in the kernel as a module.   In 2.6.11 kernels, the module
>> disappeared and the device is not recognized by the kernel.
>
> Its only in the -ac kernels. Fedora includes the -ac IDE code on the whole
> but it was missing for most of RHEL4 test because it needed porting to
> 2.6.12rc and Dave had a lot more things on his plate that were far more 
> urgent.
>

Thank you Alan, Dave said it re-appeared in a recent update kernel, and
it did!   It works much better than the previous incarnation and is
running strong with full DMA in Raid mode.

A big Thank You to you and Dave for this driver!


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