From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ahci: Add support for Promise PDC42819 Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:19:18 -0400 Message-ID: <48BD2136.1020101@garzik.org> References: <65a6ef750809020403i52228319u9e3197e4062941bc@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <65a6ef750809020403i52228319u9e3197e4062941bc@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Nelson Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Mikael Pettersson , linux-scsi List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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 > --- > 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