From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: libata and PATA devices Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:56:24 -0400 Message-ID: <42FE1828.4000104@pobox.com> References: <200508071949.03782.inform@tiker.net> <42F6B8CD.4050100@gmail.com> <20050808030239.GA27502@havoc.gtf.org> <1123495856.22328.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42F8B41C.4040408@rtr.ca> <42FACCA8.6050408@pobox.com> <42FB853E.4070100@rtr.ca> <42FB889F.50607@pobox.com> <1123789132.4422.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42FBB33D.8050003@pobox.com> <1123932640.4378.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42FE12D6.1070600@pobox.com> <1123948250.11048.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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]:28592 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751339AbVHMP4b (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:56:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1123948250.11048.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Erik Slagter Cc: Mark Lord , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Erik Slagter wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:33 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Erik Slagter wrote: >> >>>result: the pata harddisk is recognised by libata_piix and >>>assigned /dev/sda, the dvd drive is found by the generic ide driver. >>>(dmesg output attached) > > >>Great! That's precisely what's supposed to happen. Except, the hard >>drive appears to be SATA, not PATA: >> >> >>>ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xBFA0 irq 14 >>>ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2b00 82:346b 83:5b29 84:4003 85:3469 86:1a09 87:4003 88:203f >>>ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 156301488 sectors: >>>ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 >> >>Everything appears to be working just fine. DVD appears via IDE driver, >>SATA drive appears via libata. > > > Nope. The harddisk is not SATA, it's PATA. See the links I posted > earlier. That's the whole point. The controller thinks its a SATA device, so there is probably a bridge installed. Jeff