Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261582AbUCaByK (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:54:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261610AbUCaByK (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:54:10 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:35730 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261582AbUCaByD (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:54:03 -0500 Message-ID: <406A24AD.3020208@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:53:49 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Zdenek Tlusty , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: via 6420 pata/sata controller References: <200403301524.26360.tlusty@vse.cz> <200403301728.47494.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200403301728.47494.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> 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: 1398 Lines: 38 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Tuesday 30 of March 2004 15:24, Zdenek Tlusty wrote: > >>hello, >> >>I have problem with via 6420 controller under linux (I have mandrake 9.1 >>with kernel 2.4.25 with libata patch version 16). >>This controller has two sata and one pata channels. Sata channel works fine >>with libata. My problem is with pata channel. I have pata hard disk on this >>controller. Bios of the controller detected this disk but linux did not. >>What is the current status of the driver for this controller? >>Thank you for your time. > > > There are some patches floating around adding support for VT6410 > (not VT6420) to generic IDE PCI driver. This controller may also work > with generic IDE PCI driver (PCI VendorID/ProductID needs to be added > to drivers/ide/pci/generic.h and drivers/ide/pci/generic.c). VT 6420 should be added to via82cxxx.c, since it does the necessary bus setup and such. AFAICS it is programmed just like all the other VIA PATA controllers. > BTW Does anybody has contacts in VIA? Sure... I'll check my VT 6420 cards as well. It should just be another PCI id added to via82cxxx.c. Jeff - 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/