> Tejun Heo wrote: > > After booting with such kernel, please post the result of dmesg. This is the relevant part of dmesg with 2.6.16-rc5: SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 1.20 loaded. sata_nv 0000:00:0e.0: version 0.8 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSA0] enabled at IRQ 23 GSI 16 sharing vector 0xB1 and IRQ 16 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> Link [LSA0] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0e.0 to 64 ata_device_add: ENTER ata_host_add: ENTER ata_port_start: prd alloc, virt ffff81007a0c1000, dma 7a0c1000 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE800 ctl 0xE482 bmdma 0xE000 irq 16 ata_host_add: ENTER ata_port_start: prd alloc, virt ffff81007a740000, dma 7a740000 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE082 bmdma 0xE008 irq 16 ata_device_add: probe begin ata_device_add: ata1: probe begin ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata_bus_reset: ENTER, host 1, port 0 ata_bus_softreset: ata1: bus reset via SRST ata_bus_reset: EXIT ata_dev_identify: ENTER/EXIT (host 1, dev 0) -- nodev ata_dev_identify: ENTER/EXIT (host 1, dev 1) -- nodev ata_device_add: ata1: probe end scsi0 : sata_nv ata_device_add: ata2: probe begin ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0) ata_device_add: ata2: probe end On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:02:37 +0800 Albert Lee <albertcc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This pseudo SATA drive looks interesting. There is a SATA connector > on the PCI adapter. At the first glance, I thought it is a new > SATA adapter, but it is not. > (http://www6.tomshardware.com/2005/09/07/can_gigabyte/page2.html) PCI just provides the power to charge the battery. The memory controller and sata interface is implemented in the fpga. It's entirely possible that gigabyte did take some shortcuts here ... at least that's my understanding of the info above :) But if the bios and windows see the device and know how to use it ... -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
