From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: IDE hackery: lock fixes and hotplug controller stuff Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:06:30 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040810210630.GA30906@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20040810161911.GA10565@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <200408102148.57602.ianh@iahastie.local.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:62173 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267708AbUHJVHW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:07:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408102148.57602.ianh@iahastie.local.net> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Ian Hastie Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:48:57PM +0100, Ian Hastie wrote: > What do those numbers refer to? Card model numbers? On ITE's site I can only > see an IT8212F which has RAID and an IT8211F that doesn't. Product rather than chip numbers I think > I got my IT8212F card from Novatech. A generic card with no obviously > recognisable name and, IMO anyway, quite a reasonable price. That is > assuming it really does everything that they say it can. Thanks will investigate. I need to see what happens if I turn the firmware bits on with my card and then reboot the microprocessor - see if its just bios crippled > It certainly works quite well in pass through mode. *8) But it has the raid mode stuff ?