Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:13:55 +0200 | From | Kamil Okac <> | Subject | Re: via 6420 pata/sata controller |
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>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> On Tuesday 30 of March 2004 15:24, Zdenek Tlusty wrote: >> >>>hello, >>> >>>I have problem with via 6420 controller under linux (I have mandrake 9.1 >>>with kernel 2.4.25 with libata patch version 16). >>>This controller has two sata and one pata channels. Sata channel works fine >>>with libata. My problem is with pata channel. I have pata hard disk on this >>>controller. Bios of the controller detected this disk but linux did not. >>>What is the current status of the driver for this controller? >>>Thank you for your time. >> >> >> There are some patches floating around adding support for VT6410 >> (not VT6420) to generic IDE PCI driver. This controller may also work >> with generic IDE PCI driver (PCI VendorID/ProductID needs to be added >> to drivers/ide/pci/generic.h and drivers/ide/pci/generic.c). > >VT 6420 should be added to via82cxxx.c, since it does the necessary bus >setup and such. AFAICS it is programmed just like all the other VIA >PATA controllers. > >> BTW Does anybody has contacts in VIA? > >Sure... I'll check my VT 6420 cards as well. It should just be another >PCI id added to via82cxxx.c. > > Jeff >
Hello,
I tried to modify via82cxxx.c and .h, but was unsuccessful. Has anyone got it to work properly?
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