RE: Unknown SATA PIIX PCI device ID 0x29b6

Gaston, Jason D
2008-04-03T15:17:48Z

>>> Gaston, Jason D wrote:
>>>> If you disable the IDE Redirection in BIOS on that system,
>the 0x29b6
>>>> controller should not appear. If you are not using this,
>it would be
>>>> interesting to see if this effects what you are seeing.
>>>
>>> I think its fair to say that a certain amount of Linux users will
>>> inevitably have this option enabled in their BIOS. We
>should have a
>>> plan to deal with this sanely...?
>>
>> I was able to add the IDER Contoller DeviceID to ata_generic.c and it
>> seemed to work fine. I was also able to add it to
>ata_piix.c as a SATA
>> Controler and it seemed to work ok as well. However, when I tried to
>> add it to ata_piix.c as a PATA Controller if failed cable
>detection. I
>> guess this would be expected as it is a Virtual IDE contoller.
>>
>> Where is the correct place to add support for IDE Redirection
>> Contollers?
>
>What's IDE redirection? SATA appearing as IDE?
>
>--
>tejun

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 managability engine. You can
point it to a physical drive, .iso or a .img file on the remote system.

Thanks,

Jason