Re: via 6420 pata/sata controller

[Jeff Garzik]

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



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