Re: libata and PATA devices

[Wes Newell <w.newell@verizon.net>]

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 13:19 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

>>Mark Lord wrote:
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>>>Jeff Garzik wrote:
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>>>>currently no one should be using libata for PATA support.
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>>>We emailed back and forth extensively about how this has
>>>not been true since early this year.  Modern laptops are
>>>using libata for the ICH6M support, simply because libata
>>>claims that chipset, and the IDE driver does not.
>>>These laptops are using PATA drives (eg. "FUJITSU MHV2100AH").
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>>This sounds like a misconfigured kernel.  The IDE driver should pick up 
>>the PATA port, and libata should pick up the SATA port.  Anything else 
>>is a bug, and should be addressed by me or Bart.
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While ya'll are talking about pata support, has anyone got a driver that 
supports the pata ports of the SIS180 yet? And I don't care which 
way.:-) As you might recall, I tried patching the 5513 driver, but had 
limited success with constant lost interrupts. I'm not a C programmer 
and don't know much about the whole IDE layout, but I'm willing to test 
on a Jetway S755MAX Board, that constist of the standard pata ports off 
the sis755 and a secondary SIS180 with 2 ports of sata and 1 channel 
pata (2 drives). I'm running the 2.6.11 kernel, but can install whatever 
you would want to test with on another drive.