Re: Unknown SATA PIIX PCI device ID 0x29b6

Tejun Heo
2008-04-23T06:37:09Z

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