From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: hpt374 sata (Highpoint Rocket 1540) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:35:32 +0400 Message-ID: <46AF56C4.60803@wasp.net.au> References: <1185880124.3483.25.camel@localhost> <46AF3939.8020805@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wasp.net.au ([203.190.192.17]:55799 "EHLO wasp.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752555AbXGaPfl (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:35:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46AF3939.8020805@ru.mvista.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: Bob Ham , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Sergei Shtylyov wrote: >> I'm wondering if there are or will be libata drivers, or any drivers for >> that matter, for hpt374-based SATA cards? > > As HPT374 is not a SATA chip, it needs SATA bridges to work with SATA > drives, hence no the only HPT374 libata driver that's going to ever be > is pata_hpt37x. I've 2 of these cards lying around and when I last tested one of them ~2.6.20 thereabouts it worked as well as a pair of sil3112 cards provided you don't want hotplug. I have a test box here I'll fire up next week when I get some more sata drives to play with. Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams