From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] SATA VT8251 support?
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:58:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a27a4aff9fb7fc0ba33730b48ab599d4@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e04c604b5f5aef251f6c7abc482209a@9grid.es>
> did anyone know if this controller is supported by the sata driver?
>
> i cant see anywhere in sdata.c and sdiahci.c. . . i guess it isnt supported at all, so there is no option to fill some "silly" pci-id somewhere to get it going.
>
> The new 9grid.es server has this controller, it would be a pitty not being able to run plan9 on it and be stuck to the 256M-RAM server :(
>
> (output of lspci -v under the linux the server comes with)
>
> 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 AHCI/SATA 4-Port Controller (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
> Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 AHCI/SATA 4-Port Controller
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 509
> I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
i didn't add support because i didn't have any test hardware.
please try the untested version at http://www.quanstro.net/sdiahci.c.
it should report the via as an unk 4-port hba. "unk" means that there
is no special magic required.
do you need a matching driver for 9load?
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 19:41 gdiaz
2008-08-05 19:58 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-08-05 20:26 ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-06 21:22 ` Rodolfo kix García
2008-08-07 2:49 ` erik quanstrom
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