From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: ICH6R support 2.4.20 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:42:04 -0400 Message-ID: <42E6F47C.4070001@pobox.com> References: <42E6EBA1.8080902@packetdesign.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:20669 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262359AbVG0CmR (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:42:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42E6EBA1.8080902@packetdesign.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Siddharth Taneja Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Siddharth Taneja wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to port our software system (uses a 2.4.20 kernel) to a new > platform which has a ICH6R controller. Due to some reasons we cannot > update our kernel to a more recent one (probably 2.4.27) which has > libata support in it. I can successfully patch the kernel (after some > modifications) with the 2.4.26-libata patch and get the system up and > running using the drivers/ide code. But I cannot seem to get the > ata_piix (scsi layer) working (does not patch cleanly). Is there a patch > available for 2.4.20 that can get the ICH6R support. Or is there a way > to get the dma mode enabled with the drivers/ide code? Turn off combined mode, and PATA DMA will start working. Jeff