Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:30:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> |
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > No the are the pci device ide but different guts. This is the ugliness > > that most never see. > > I think you left some words out. Are you saying that this is one of those > chips which change PCI id in order to give the appearance of backwards > compatability? That it's not really a VT82C586?
Okay,
The North/South Bridge combination names will change but ATA/IDE device ID's are identical. This is how the features differ from one to the other.
So your ATA-33 limited will report the same ID as an ATA-66.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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