From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Mark Nelson <mdnelson8@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ahci: Add support for Promise PDC42819
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:19:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BD2136.1020101@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65a6ef750809020403i52228319u9e3197e4062941bc@mail.gmail.com>
Mark Nelson wrote:
> Add an appropriate entry for the Promise PDC42819 controller. It has an
> AHCI mode and seems to work correctly with board_ahci.
>
> This chip is found on Promise's FastTrak TX2650 (2 port) and TX4650 (4 port)
> software-based RAID cards (for which there is a binary driver, t3sas) and
> can be found on some motherboards, for example the MSI K9A2 Platinum,
> which calls the chip a Promise T3 controller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <mdnelson8@gmail.com>
> ---
> Apparently this chip also supports SAS disks, will these work with the
> ahci driver (I've only tested with normal desktop SATA disks)?
ahci is definitely SATA-only, so I wonder how they modified AHCI to
support SAS transport...
Jeff
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <65a6ef750809020403i52228319u9e3197e4062941bc@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-02 11:19 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-09-02 11:53 ` [RFC][PATCH] ahci: Add support for Promise PDC42819 Alan Cox
2008-09-02 12:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-02 13:57 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-02 19:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-02 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-02 22:30 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-02 11:55 ` Mark Nelson
2008-09-02 12:08 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-09-02 12:21 ` Mark Nelson
2008-09-04 10:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-04 11:59 ` Mark Nelson
2008-09-04 13:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-04 14:27 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-09-04 14:28 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-05 2:31 ` Mark Nelson
2008-09-05 2:28 ` Mark Nelson
2008-10-16 11:18 ` Mark Nelson
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