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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Pata support on Promise controller under Fedora Core 3
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:08:52 -0400
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To: Ericisko <linux2@rogers.com>
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Ericisko wrote:
> James,
> 
> you have the same controller as me (PDC20378) which
> has only 1 PATA port. PATA ports support up to 2
> devices per port, as opposed to SATA ports which
> support only 1 device per port.
> There is source code for 2.4 linux driver on Promise
> web site, you can have a look.
> Could you send your dmesg output?


Note that PDC2037x has a "dual master mode", where two PATA devices 
(master/slave) on the same cable can be made to look like two 
independent PATA masters, thus giving the illusion that there are two ports.

	Jeff