Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:20:28 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Marvell PATA-SATA bridge meets 2.4.x |
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It was me who pointed this fact out.
ATA-7 fails to address SATA w/ cable detect and now it reverts back to ATA-5 mess :-(
I will post a patch for 2.4 for siimage.[ch] later showing how to fudge the driver.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Rumi Szabolcs wrote: > > Hello! > > > > A while ago I reported a problem with the 2.4.22 kernel and the > > tiny Marvell PATA to SATA bridge chip that is used on many of > > the now-not-so-recent motherboards which don't have native > > SATA ports in their southbridges. > > > > As it can be seen below, a native SATA150 drive is connected > > to a SATA port implemented using that Marvell chip hooked up > > to the ICH4's parallel ATA133 port and this way the drive is > > only recognized (and used) as UDMA33: > > > > ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1 > > ICH4: chipset revision 2 > > ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > > hdc: ST3160023AS, ATA DISK drive > > blk: queue c04a1ff4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > > hdc: attached ide-disk driver. > > hdc: host protected area => 1 > > hdc: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33) > > > > As far as I can remember someone (Jeff Garzik?) suspected the > > SATA cable not being recognized as a 80-conductor thus >=UDMA66 > > capable cable. Then it was told that there is a fix underway that > > will be included in the 2.4.23 kernel. The above snippet shows > > that the 2.4.25 kernel still has this problem. Any comments? > > You want to use a 2.6 kernel and talk to Bart, and Jeff about this... > - > 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/ >
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