From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Unknown SATA PIIX PCI device ID 0x29b6 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:37:02 +0900 Message-ID: <480ED90E.1080300@gmail.com> References: <20080228225603.2764bfd1@core> <47CFADDF.20200@gmail.com> <39B20DF628532344BC7A2692CB6AEE0702679018@orsmsx420.amr.corp.intel.com> <47D03272.9080209@garzik.org> <39B20DF628532344BC7A2692CB6AEE070283295C@orsmsx420.amr.corp.intel.com> <47F42862.1030406@gmail.com> <39B20DF628532344BC7A2692CB6AEE0702832B5B@orsmsx420.amr.corp.intel.com> <47F4FFBE.8050800@gmail.com> <39B20DF628532344BC7A2692CB6AEE070294E62F@orsmsx420.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.153]:22931 "EHLO po-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbYDWGhJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:37:09 -0400 Received: by po-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id y22so168241pof.1 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:37:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <39B20DF628532344BC7A2692CB6AEE070294E62F@orsmsx420.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Gaston, Jason D" Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Gaston, Jason D wrote: >>> IDER is a controller, in this case, in the MCH/Northbridge that >>> redirects a virtual drive across the LAN and presents it as >> a local IDE >>> drive. This is part of the Intel AMT manageability engine. You can >>> point it to a physical drive, .iso or a .img file on the >> remote system. >> >> Ah... fancy. You can just make it PATA if doesn't have SCR access and >> supports slave device and use ata_cable_unknown() for ->cbl_detect. >> >> -- >> tejun >> > > After messing around for a bit, what I came up with that worked, was > very similar to what it set for ich8_sata_ahci. So, I tried just adding > the new DeviceID as an ich8_sata_ahci and it seems to work fine. Do you > see anything wrong with just doing this? I'm not sure that the port map > is relevant for a virtual device? I have attached the dmesg output for > your review. Things look fine to me but I think it's probably best to create a separate port info entry for it. Is SIDPR available for IDER too? -- tejun