From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Oliver Korpilla <Oliver.Korpilla@gmx.de>
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA/IDE strangeness (ATI chip)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:01:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e05031809012b59157c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4239C48A.2050608@gmx.de>
Hi,
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:55:22 +0100, Oliver Korpilla
<Oliver.Korpilla@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On my MSI motherboard there are the following devices:
>
> 0000:00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 437a
> 0000:00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4379
> 0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4376
>
> These are listed in the PCI ID database (not committed yet):
>
> 4376 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI
> 4379 ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller
> 437a ATI 437A Serial ATA Controller
>
> The 1st SATA controller seems to work with the SATA_SIL driver from
> vanilla 2.6.11 (and none sooner, I tried), and I'm using it that way
> now. Since the Debian Pure64 CD doesn't come with that, it doesn't find
> a HD when trying to install with the CD.
>
> I have the following problems:
> ------------------------------
> * Though the SATA is configured in IDE mode in BIOS it does not show up
> as IDE within Linux and this does not change when the ATIIXP driver is
> loaded - ide2 is not recognized as a bus with connected devices. My SATA
> HD is listed by the BIOS to be channel 2 master, while CD-ROM on the
> Dual ATA is listed on channel 0, channel 1 is unused, so shouldn't the
> SATA drive show up as /dev/hde or something???
Linux no longer use legacy/obsolete BIOS ordering/naming.
You can name /dev nodes however you want using udev.
> * How can I tune the ATIIXP driver via parameters or source modification
> so it recognizes the SATA controllers as devices to configure???
What for?
> * How can I force ANY IDE driver to recognize these SATA drives in IDE
> mode?
>
> This is a mail regarding this topic I'm confused about. The author seems
> to think, ATIIXP can do the 4379 as well:
It can't (reliably).
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.1/1460.html
>
> Please let me know if I can provide you with any additional data.
>
> Thanks and with kind regards,
> Oliver Korpilla
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2005-03-17 17:55 SATA/IDE strangeness (ATI chip) Oliver Korpilla
2005-03-18 17:01 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
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2005-03-17 17:47 Oliver Korpilla
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