amd_64 SATA status question
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at welho.com
Thu Mar 11 17:29:29 UTC 2004
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Douglas Kilpatrick wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > The Asus via boards have both VIA and Promise chips that are supported.
> > The chaintech has 4x promise ports which are supported. Many boards have
> > Sil3114, which are not supported yet.
>
> My board has the Sil3114. The kernels provided by Fedora come with a
> driver that is not compiled, but once compiled, It Works For Me (tm).
>
> (You have to turn on the "allow drivers not expected to compile" option,
> then select the driver from the libata-based set. But again, appears to
> work for me. Just the lack of support from the stock kernel makes it
> hard to install to hard drives off of that controller, so I've picked up
> a different one.)
Yup, SiI3114 with a small patch against vanilla 2.6.3 works for me as well
but not having it built in makes life unnecessarily difficult :)
Could we have that turned on in the kernel?
- Panu -
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