From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wes Newell Subject: Re: maintenence sata_sis Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:14:41 -0500 Message-ID: <430B91C1.6040407@verizon.net> References: <4309A268.8090203@gmx.net> <430AA69A.1030307@verizon.net> <430AD885.4080001@gmx.net> <430B63D1.6080108@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.44]:3062 "EHLO vms044pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932122AbVHWVNE (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:13:04 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([71.244.20.31]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0ILP003LV1LR5EW1@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:13:04 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Arnaud Patard Cc: Uwe Koziolek , "linux.ide" Arnaud Patard wrote: >Wes Newell writes: > > > >>Uwe Koziolek wrote: >> >> >> >>>Wes Newell wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>The SiS180 has disabled the interrupts by default. You must enable the >>>interrupts in the PCI-config space. >>>You can find a function pci_enable_intx() in the sata_sis.c. >>> >>>regards >>>Uwe Koziolek >>> >>> >>> >>Well, now you've really lost me. I wasn't using sata_sis when I got >>the drive to work with lost interrupts. I was using a patched sis5513 >>ide driver. So maybe I should just forget that and say that the >> >> > >the sis5513 driver is the ide driver and sata_sis for sata/pata. > > > This much I know, but since the original sata_sis with 2.6.11 didn't see the drives at all and the SIS sata_sis locked up the machine with a pata drive atached, and I don't have any sata drives, I just tried patching it, and it at least saw the drives and I could read and write to them, but because of the lost interrrupts, it was realllll slow. I would much prefer to get both sata and pata portion of it working with sata_sis if possible. >>machine locks up solid when I try and load sata_sis from >>sis18x_2.6.10_1.00.00. So I really don't understand what you are >>saying I need to do here. Remember, I'm not a C programmer and only >>came here some months back to see if someone could fix this. I'm >>willing to help in any way I can testing, but if you want me to patch >>something or enable something, you're going to have to lead me by the >> >> > >Even if it was not perfect as concern the pata support, you may also >test the patch I mailed. > > > What patch was this and for which sata_sis was it for and where do i get it.