From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe Koziolek Subject: Re: sata_sis and SIS180 in combined mode Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:18:41 +0100 Message-ID: <45735B51.5040501@gmx.net> References: <200612031834.16797.sven@linux4geeks.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:31137 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758846AbWLCXSo (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 18:18:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200612031834.16797.sven@linux4geeks.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Sven Ladegast Cc: uwe.koziolek@web.de, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello Sven, the sata_sis does not really supports PATA-ports. The driver must be modified. A good solution would be to move the SiS180/964 support to pata_sis because the PATA code is much longer then the SATA code. Only some lines must be added to the pata_sis, to support the SATA ports. But actually it does not work. Because you are only using the PATA port, you can make a private solution, move the PCI-ID 180 from sata_sis.c to sis5513.c or pata_sis.c dependend on the ide driver you want to use. The SiS180 has no hardware RAID functionality, It is only a BIOS based software raid. The SiS180 is a combined SATA/PATA controller. I will try a patch for this issue. regards, Uwe Koziolek Sven Ladegast wrote: > Hello Uwe, > > I am having problems to access a hard drive connected to a SIS180 > SATA-RAID controller. > > The controller is located on my mainboard (Elitegroup KV2 extreme). > There is only one hard disk drive connected to the PATA port od the > controller. Both SATA ports are empty. The BIOS of the controller > recognizes the disk and while running Microsoft Windows I can access the > disk. > > I do not know the SIS180 chipset. Probably it is a fake-RAID but I do not > know if the PATA port is just a SATA-PATA birdge hardwired on the > mainboard or if it is a seperate port. > >