From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wes Newell Subject: Re: maintenence sata_sis Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:31:22 -0500 Message-ID: <430AA69A.1030307@verizon.net> References: <4309A268.8090203@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.42]:31958 "EHLO vms042pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932069AbVHWE35 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:29:57 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([71.244.20.31]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0ILN003AUR5WNPH2@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:29:56 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: <4309A268.8090203@gmx.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Uwe Koziolek , "linux.ide" Uwe Koziolek wrote: >Hello Jeff, > >currently it exists 3 variants to support the SiS182 Chipset >- use SiS182 with the code from SiS180, only add the PCI-ID to the driver >- the source code from OSDL >- the source code from www.sis.com >Actually i have no SiS board available. So i have no chance to maintain >the driver. > >regards >Uwe Koziolek > > > >Arnaud Patard wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >> >>I got recently a motherboard shipped with the SATA SIS 182 chipset. This >>chipset is not supported by the kernel. I tried to just add the PCI IDS >>in the supported chipset list as suggested on some mails in this >>list but it didn't work for the hard drive connected on the second sata port. >> >>I found that this has been reported on >>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192. Unfortunately the patch >>didn't apply to the recents kernel. So, I've written a new minimal patch that >>add support for this chipset. >> >>It works well on the machine I have with a 2.6.12.5 kernel but I was not >>able to test it on SIS 180/181 chipset (I don't have the hardware). >> >>imho having support for this chipset in the kernel could be usefull, so >>any feedback/comments are welcome. >> >>Regards, >>Arnaud Patard >> >> >> I've got a Jetway S755MAX that also has a real SIS180 onboard and have been trying to get PATA support for it without any luck for several months now. The sata_sis driver from SIS just locks up the machine when I attach a pata drive. With the help of a few here, I patched the sis5513 driver, but it has lost interrupt problems. I basically gave up on this ever working a couple of months ago. Do you think there's any hope at all? I'm willing to try whatever some can point me towards, but I'm not a C programmer. I can compile kernels though and follow instructions.