Version 0.1.5 of the Intel Sofware RAID driver (iswraid) is now available for the 2.4 series kernels at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/iswraid/2.4.29-iswraid.patch.gz?download
It is an ataraid "subdriver" but uses the SCSI subsystem to find the RAID member disks. It depends on the libata library, particularly on either the ata_piix or the ahci driver, that enable the Serial ATA capabilities in ICH5/ICH6/ICH7 chipsets. More information is available at the project's home page at http://iswraid.sourceforge.net/. Driver documentation is included in Documentation/iswraid.txt, which is part of the patch. The license is GPL. The changes WRT version 0.1.4.3 are the following: * Resource deallocation bug fixed for failed initializations. * Read IO resubmission to mirror bug fixed. * RAID1E (covers 4-disk RAID10) code added. * More aggressive marking disks as bad in metadata. * Claiming disks for RAID "feature" removed. * Option defaults now customizable from the build configuration. * iswraid_never_fail "feature" watered down into iswraid_resist_failing. * iswraid_halt_degraded now prevents degraded volumes from being registered. * Debug printouts more customizable. * Some code cleanup and optimization. * Documentation changes. Please consider this driver for inclusion in the 2.4 kernel tree. Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts P.S. I've CC-d directly to the potential reviewers suggested a few months ago by Marcelo. I'll appreciate any feedback you (and others) can provide. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
