Re: VIA Serial ATA chipset

Misha Nasledov
2003-08-11T06:06:43Z

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:55:49AM +0200, Daniela Engert wrote:
> It's looking very similar to the standard ATA host register model, so
> it's probably nearly identical to existing VIA PATA controllers. To
> check this we need to know the actual PCI config space. What does lspci
> -s 0:f.0 -vvxx show?

Here is the output:
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device
3149 (rev 80)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3149
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at 8800 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at 8400 [size=4]
Region 2: I/O ports at 8000 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at 7800 [size=4]
Region 4: I/O ports at 7400 [size=16]
Region 5: I/O ports at 7000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00: 06 11 49 31 07 00 90 02 80 00 04 01 00 20 80 00
10: 01 88 00 00 01 84 00 00 01 80 00 00 01 78 00 00
20: 01 74 00 00 01 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 11 49 31
30: 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00

Also, if SATA were to work, would there be any problem with accessing
the hard disk? Currently, I have two onboard IDE channels, a PCI IDE
card, and this SATA chip. I notice that the IDE hard disk devices only
go up to hdh in /dev. Would I be able to use all 6 of my IDE channels?