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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:13:55 +0200
From: Kamil Okac <kamil@okac.org>
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Subject: Re: via 6420 pata/sata controller
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 >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
 >

Hello,

I tried to modify via82cxxx.c and .h, but was unsuccessful. Has anyone 
got it to work properly?

   Kamil Okac
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