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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Ericisko <linux2@rogers.com>
Cc: "James C. Bevier" <jbev@jbsys.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pata support on Promise controller under Fedora Core 3
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:08:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <417FABF4.6050008@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041027135800.77927.qmail@web88007.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Ericisko wrote:
> James,
> 
> you have the same controller as me (PDC20378) which
> has only 1 PATA port. PATA ports support up to 2
> devices per port, as opposed to SATA ports which
> support only 1 device per port.
> There is source code for 2.4 linux driver on Promise
> web site, you can have a look.
> Could you send your dmesg output?


Note that PDC2037x has a "dual master mode", where two PATA devices 
(master/slave) on the same cable can be made to look like two 
independent PATA masters, thus giving the illusion that there are two ports.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-27 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <006101c4baed$f3b46d80$0c01a8c0@nugget>
2004-10-27 13:58 ` Pata support on Promise controller under Fedora Core 3 Ericisko
2004-10-27 14:08   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-27 16:05     ` James  C. Bevier
2004-10-27 17:18       ` Ericisko
2004-10-25  4:58 James  C. Bevier
2004-10-26 11:17 ` Ericisko
2004-10-26 15:48   ` James  C. Bevier

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