From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Hastie Subject: Re: IDE hackery: lock fixes and hotplug controller stuff Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:36:05 +0100 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200408110136.06137.ianh@iahastie.local.net> References: <20040810161911.GA10565@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <200408102148.57602.ianh@iahastie.local.net> <20040810210630.GA30906@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([212.104.129.89]:64947 "EHLO mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267851AbUHKAiX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:38:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20040810210630.GA30906@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Ian Hastie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 10 Aug 2004 22:06, Alan Cox wrote: > 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 ? Yes it does. It's certainly sold as a RAID card and it does have a RAID setup menu. I haven't had the opportunity to use it fully as the discs I needed to use on it were already set up for software RAID. Maybe I'll have a couple spare(!) discs to play with if I upgrade to SATA. It seems that the operation depends on the firmware, or should that be BIOS, you load onto the card. There's this from the IT8212 FAQ, http://www.ite.com.tw/faq/it8212.html 1. Could I use IT8212 for CD-ROM? Ans: IT8212 supports either RAID controller (which supports hard drives only) or pure IDE controller (which supports hard drives and CDROM) with different BIOS code. Please update your BIOS ROM with ATAPI BIOS. There are certainly two files available http://www.ite.com.tw/pc/bios_8212Raid-093015-02.zip and http://www.ite.com.tw/pc/bios_8212ATAPI-093015-02.zip -- Ian.