From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rod Whitby Subject: Re: Libata PATA status Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:57:00 +0930 Message-ID: <468D7034.7060107@whitby.id.au> References: <20070703185116.59c8f5f5@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:42813 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757389AbXGEW3v (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:29:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070703185116.59c8f5f5@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, Rod Whitby Alan Cox wrote: > Chipsets > ======== > ARTOP > No reports, but nobody appears to be using one The NSLU2-Linux project (http://www.nslu2-linux.org) relies on the pata-artop driver for the arm/ixp4xx-based Iomega NAS100d and D-Link DSM-G600 NAS devices (both of which are supported in recent mainline kernels). Latest kernels (2.6.22-rc5 is the latest we've tested) have no reported problems with pata-artop. We have a handful of people (including myself) who we know are using 2.6.22-rc5 on those devices and are booting from the internal drive using the pata-artop driver. I'm happy for anyone to contact me in the future if new versions of the pata-artop driver need to be tested. There are people using it :-) > VIA > Solid. Sent acpi patch for -mm to try and fix the one remaining > mystery "how to spot VIA with onboard SATA bridges properly. If > you've got a VIA board with SATA ports that appear as PATA > channels please drop me an email as I'd like to get more info > on what is affected. Our project is also working on adding support to the kernel for the Freecom FSG-3 NAS device. It uses the sata-via driver for it's VIA_6421 chipset, but the main drive is a PATA drive (the device also has an eSATA external port). We're currently stuck at 2.6.18 with vendor patches for scsi/sata-via, and would love to move to 2.6.22 and libata, but are having problems with the latest sata-via driver for this chipset booting from an IDE drive. I'll contact you separately for this issue (as it's off-topic on this thread). Thanks, -- Rod Whitby -- NSLU2-Linux Project Lead