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    SubjectRe: Quick question.
    On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Ray Lehtiniemi wrote:
    > > I had to _add_ some code to the (E)IDE driver to properly detect
    > > EATA compliant (DPT et al.) SCSI controllers and drop them.....
    > > They do a ATA interface emulation in hardware and an unsuspecting EIDE
    > > driver would always detect them and start using them.
    > >
    > > It would work fine for the first two drives.....but you couldn't access the
    > > rest of the devices (besides loosing all of the other SCSI advantages).
    >
    > that would explain these phantom hdc and hdd i've been meaning to ask
    > about :) are these supposed to show up, or should they be dropped as well?
    > this is the dmesg output for my 2.0.12 kernel.

    > ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
    > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7
    > ide0 timing: (0x8000) sample_CLKs=5, recovery_CLKs=4
    > master: fastDMA=off PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
    > slave : fastDMA=off PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
    > hda: Pioneer CD-ROM ATAPIModel DR-UP124X 0100, ATAPI CDROM drive
    > hdc: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
    > hdc: EATA SCSI HBA PM2124A
    > hdd: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
    > hdd: EATA SCSI HBA PM2124A
    > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
    > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
    > Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
    > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
    > EATA (Extended Attachment) driver version: 2.58g
    > developed in co-operation with DPT
    > (c) 1993-96 Michael Neuffer, mike@i-Connect.Net
    > Registered HBAs:
    > HBA no. Boardtype Revis EATA Bus BaseIO IRQ DMA Ch ID Pr QS S/G IS
    > scsi0 : PM2124A/9X- v07C.0 2.0c PCI 0x0170 11 BMST 1 7 N 64 64 N
    > scsi0 : EATA (Extended Attachment) HBA driver
    > scsi : 1 host.

    No, they are supposed to show up this way. This indicates that
    the ide driver has indeed recognized them as EATA compilant SCSI
    hardware and has dropped them.

    Mike

    Michael Neuffer i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp.
    mike@i-Connect.Net 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140
    503.677..2900 Beaverton, OR 97008



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