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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:35:28 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Highpoint IDE types
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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2005-11-08 at 21:02 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> 
>>> *      HPT372                  4 (HPT366)      5     
>>> *      HPT372N                 4 (HPT366)      6     
>>> *      HPT372                  5 (HPT372)      0
>>
>>          ^^^^^^
>>
>>This one is called HPT372A by Highpoint's BIOS/Win drivers.
>>
>>Also I'm not sure if it's relevant but PCI ID 5 chips use a different
>>BIOS image than PCI ID 4 chips.
> 
> 
> I suspect it is relevant because the "372A" appears to have a different
> base clock to the HPT372.
> 
> Added to the list.
> 
May we assume that this information was gathered in the interest of 
something beyond pedantic curiousity? Will this simplify the driver 
code, improve performance or reliability, etc?

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