Re: multiple sata_mv boards with same DevID ?

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

eric wrote:
> To whom it may concern:
> 
> We have the HighPoint 1740 SATAII RAID card.  I had to modify the sata_mv.c
> (attached) to get it to work with my card.  The interesting bits are as
> follows:
> 
> /* RocketRAID 1740/174x have different identifiers */
> 
> /* { PCI_VDEVICE(TTI, 0x1740), chip_508x }, */
> 
> /* Pozicom: GenII 1740 cards use 88sx6042 chip */
> 
> { PCI_VDEVICE(TTI, 0x1740), chip_6042 },
> 
> { PCI_VDEVICE(TTI, 0x1742), chip_508x },
> 
>  
> It appears the same card has different chip set depending upon when you
> purchased your card.  Looking through the code, the GenI vs. GenII vs.
> GenIIe is done after the call to mv_pci_init_one thus passing a table of
> values that are incorrect.  It would appear to make sense to solve this by
> creating two or more tables and make mv_pci_tbl a pci_device_id global * and
> reference it accordingly after the Rev. level was determined.
..

Hi,

We (I) really need to see the output of "lspci -xxx" from that system.

Thanks.