From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Otto Meier Subject: Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4 Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:12:00 +0200 Message-ID: <42EE3BC0.6010002@gmx.net> References: <42EDE918.9040807@gmx.net> <42EE3501.7010107@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:17646 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261299AbVHAPMH (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:12:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42EE3501.7010107@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Drake Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Daniel Drake wrote: > Otto Meier wrote: >> This card use the sata chip pdc 40718 (as of my card) >> the lastest sata_promise kernel with sata promise patch driver=20 >> doesn't recognise >> this card. >> >> I added the following line to static struct pci_device_id=20 >> pdc_ata_pci_tbl[] in sata_promise.c: >> >> { PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE, 0x3d17, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, >> board_20319 }, >> >> and the card was recognised and seam to work without errors so far. > > Yes, this should be fine (this is a 4-port SATA card right?) > > Are you happy to produce and submit a patch yourself (read=20 > Documentation/SubmittingPatches) or should I submit one for you? > > Thanks, > Daniel > > Yes you are right it is a 4-port sata-II 300 card (PDC40718 ). Accordin= g to the promise feature list it should support : SATA300=E2=84=A2 TX4 Highlights * Native Command Queuing (NCQ) * SATA Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) * Large LBA support for drives above 137GB * Supports Serial ATAPI devices * Disk Activity LED Headers * Flexible future-proof upgrade for users with motherboards that only have a PCI interface My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher=20 datarate be supported by this modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supporte= d? Here is the patch: --- linux/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c.orig 2005-08-01 17:09:48.47482477= 8=20 +0200 +++ linux/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c 2005-07-31 12:57:06.415979512 +02= 00 @@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ static struct pci_device_id pdc_ata_pci_ board_20319 }, { PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE, 0x3319, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, board_20319 }, + { PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE, 0x3d17, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, + board_20319 }, { PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE, 0x3d18, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, board_20319 }, Thanks Otto