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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Jason Cribbins <jason.cribbins@mgmservers.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: VIA VT8251 on Asus A8V-MV
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:29:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051122072938.GA12588@midnight.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43827C76.3000703@mgmservers.com>

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:03:34PM -0500, Jason Cribbins wrote:

> Can you explain the situation in the following URL?
> http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=68455&STARTPAGE=1
> 
> Also as I try to install fedora it reports that it is unable to find any 
> installed HDs.  I have found an OpenBSD patch that does get it to work 
> there but nothing for Linux that works as of right now.
> My BIOS has the controller set to SATA mode right now and its not 
> visible.  Even if I set it to RAID mode or AHCI modes I get the same 
> result using fedora core4 and what ever kernel comes bundled with their 
> installer.

I'm sorry, I confused it with the vt8231. 

> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:52:28AM -0500, Jason Cribbins wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>I was wondering if its possible to find someone to create a driver 
> >>support for the Via VT8251 South Bridge chipset which appears to have 
> >>been around for about a year now.  I am unable to get any form of Linux 
> >>to see my HDs connected to that on board controller.  Although I have 
> >>successfully used it in non-raid mode on FreeBSD.  I need this for 
> >>fedora if possible.
> >>
> >>Is something like this possible?  And if so would it cost anything?
> >
> >The vt8251 is supported for quite some time by the IDE driver and its
> >vt82cxxx.c chipset driver.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-22  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-20 14:52 VIA VT8251 on Asus A8V-MV Jason Cribbins
2005-11-21 23:55 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-22  2:03   ` Jason Cribbins
2005-11-22  2:16     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-22  3:09       ` Andrew Joyce
2005-11-22  7:29     ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]

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