Mikael Pettersson wrote:
Gary Thomas writes:
> Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:54:07 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to use the sata_promise driver (1.04) with a CDROM
> >> and having little luck. I'm using this chipset:
> >> 00:0b.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA 300 TX2plus) (rev 02)
> >>
> >> If I plug in a SATAPI drive, the driver hangs during initialization.
> >> If I plug in a (PATA) ATAPI drive, I'm told:
> >>
> >> ata3.01: ATAPI, max MWDMA2
> >> ata3.01: configured for MWDMA2
> >> Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250824NS Rev: 3.AE
> >> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> >> ata3.01: WARNING: ATAPI is not supported with this driver, device ignored.
> >>
> >> Is there any way to get this working (I'm using Linux 2.6.18, with
> >> linux-2.6-sata-promise-pata-ports.patch from Fedora Core 6)
> >>
> >
> > Patience. The driver doesn't support ATAPI yet, but I
> > intend to work on that soon.
> >
> >
> Any progress on this?
Yes. SATAPI and PATAPI are working. Patches have been posted
to linux-ide, and hopefully final combined/reworked/tidied-up
patches should be available tomorrow.
Very nice, thanks.
BTW, what SATAPI drive did you try this with? I have a Lite-On
LTN-52S1S that doesn't seem to work at all with the PDC40775 - it
just hangs during the bootup.
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