Mitchell Laks wrote:

It does not work with the debian sid 2.6.15 kernel. You were far more 
observant than I. I thought that my 2 raids were working with the debian 
2.6.15 but in fact it one of the drives had failed out of the  array (thats 
why it seemed to work, I hadn't slept enough...).

In fact your diagnosis is completely correct. I cannot get both sata_via and 
sata_promise up at the same time, without timeout problems. 

I _hope_ this is just an anomaly as I have a production machine here with 2.6.10, 3 sata_pro6mise 
cards and using the on-board sata_via interface also.. I was planning on upgrading it to 2.6.15 or 
2.6.16 when it's released to gain the benefit of the new raid-5 error recovery patches.


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