Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:07:50 -0800 (PST) | From | Levitsky Maxim <> | Subject | Re: Question: Status of marvell's PATA 88SE6101 controller on intel boards |
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--- Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > I also noticed that 2.6.20 adds experimentally support for that chip. > > But driver says that it enables it via 'legacy mode' > > Yes. > > > I will be glad to hear whenever full support is planned or not. > > At the moment it is not, but it may be a neccessary side effect of full > support for the later SATA capable controllers in native SATA mode. In > which case you might get it one day. > > The legacy mode is itself as good as most typical PATA controllers and > better than some.
And I don't need anything better , just normal recording on my PATA DVD writer. I now have very old system and still DVD recording works fine , so I don't need anything more than that
> > > > And as last thing I want to ask you whenever current support is usable, > > that is can I use DMA , can I use DVD as at least reader for CD/DVD , > > and even better can I burn disks with it ( although I can live without it) > > The legacy mode has full DMA support. What you don't get is the ability > to queue multiple commands so the hardware can fire off a new command as > the first completes and to have the hardware do some of the general > poking around for us.
So that means that DVD-writer will work too ?
> > Alan >
Thank you very much, I didn't expect so quick response.
Thank you, kernel developers for so great kernel. Maxim Levitsky
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