Fw: Re: Fw: Re: more info on sil.c's magic number

[James Olson]

Hi Richard
You could find out by doing the command # hdparm --Istdout /dev/hde which will print out the identify data and you could then look at what's at locations 0x60 to 0x63.
  -James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Powell" <rspowell at gmail.com>
To: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak,  Highpoint 370) related discussions" <ataraid-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: more info on sil.c's magic number
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:34:54 -0600

> 
> That would explain why my silraid doesn't work :)
> 
> On 11/1/05, James Olson <big_spender12 at lycos.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ooops I hit reply and it went to your email Molle so I am also forwarding
> > it to the list.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "James Olson" <big_spender12 at lycos.com>
> > To: "Molle Bestefich" <molle.bestefich at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: more info on sil.c's magic number
> > Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:55:03 -0500
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks Molle!
> > > Yes, that needs to be changed. It will also fail to detect newer drives
> > that have nonzero
> > > values for the double-word transfers in 0x60 and 0x61. If you do an
> > internet search for
> > > medley.c, that 2.4 kernel driver source talks about it and they use the
> > pci card vendor id and
> > > device id fields instead to detect the metadata.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Molle Bestefich" <molle.bestefich at gmail.com>
> > > To: big_spender12 at lycos.com
> > > Subject: Re: more info on sil.c's magic number
> > > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:04:02 +0100
> > >
> > > >
> > > > James Olson wrote:
> > > > [ snip SIL metadata ]
> > > >
> > > > wow. nice work!!
> > > >
> > > > let's hope heinz sees this and comes up with a better magic for SIL.
> > >
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