From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261723AbVA3Qoa (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:44:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261724AbVA3Qoa (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:44:30 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:42447 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261723AbVA3Qo1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:44:27 -0500 Subject: Re: Flashing BIOS of a PCI IDE card (IT8212F) From: Alan Cox To: Rahul Karnik Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <5b64f7f050127081948af7a31@mail.gmail.com> References: <5b64f7f050127081948af7a31@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1106844207.14787.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:39:41 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2005-01-27 at 16:19, Rahul Karnik wrote: > card from within Linux. I have an OEM IT8212 card with a really old > BIOS which the vendor does not support with a BIOS flashing tool. ITE > Tech's flashing tool appears to work, but it fails to verify that the > flash was successful and indeed the ROM is unchanged. Not every vendor bothers to make the flash writable from the PCI card, and if the ROM is unchanged that seems likely. Note that with the 2.6.10-ac kernels if you have a BIOS in raid mode you can force it out of raid mode with a boot option. You cannot however do the same in the other direction.