Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262605AbUCOPbc (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:31:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262608AbUCOPbc (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:31:32 -0500 Received: from 1-2-2-1a.has.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.130.86]:46736 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262605AbUCOPb3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:31:29 -0500 Message-ID: <4055CC48.6060200@stesmi.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:31:20 +0100 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040219 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Hogue CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA on 2.4.x References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1382 Lines: 41 Andrew Hogue wrote: > Hi, > > I am using a via8237 southbridge with sata support. I know that there is > support for this in 2.6.x but I cannot use 2.6.x due to some > incompatibility with my hardware. > > Is there a patch to allow the via 8237 sata controller to work for kernel > 2.4.x ? > > Thanks, > > -- Andrew > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ I've used the libata driver for it (makes it appear as a SCSI device) and it's worked fine for me but I've stopped using it after finding out about trouble with that controller. If you have a second sata controller on board, like a promise for instance, use that instead. You still need libata in that case though. Trouble with the controller is that three motherboards from three manufacturers have eaten* three harddrives for me. There are numerous threads on the net about people experiencing similar effects as I did .. // Stefan * Ate = had to RMA. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/