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From: Vester Thacker <vthacker@0xfe.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Support for SATA hard drives.
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:56:58 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040620075658.GA8451@0xfe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <654bf4d1971709e9f023af1232c651c0@plan9.bell-labs.com>

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:12:59AM -0400, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> 
> The controllers look to all intents and purposes just like regular ATA
> controllers (unless you want to initialise them from scratch), so there's
> not much to do other than make sure the controller is recognised by the
> driver. There's one there alraeady:
> 
> devi% grep SATA /sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c
> 		case (0x3149<<16)|0x1106:	/* VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID */
> devi% 
> 
> and it has on it
> 
> devi# cat /dev/sdC0/ctl
> inquiry ST380013AS                              
> config 0C5A capabilities 2F00 dma 00550040 dmactl 00550040 rwm 16 rwmctl 0 lba48always off
> geometry 156301488 512 16383 16 63
> part data 0 156301488
> devi# 

Thanks, Jim. I'm glad to see that the VT8237 is supported.

--Vester


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-20  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-20  4:50 Vester Thacker
2004-06-20  6:12 ` jmk
2004-06-20  7:56   ` Vester Thacker [this message]
2004-06-20  9:56   ` Bruce Ellis

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