On Monday, 2. July 2007, you wrote: > On 02.07.2007 07:02, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Hmmm. From looking at the ICH8-Datasheet ( > http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/313056.htm > or http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/31305603.pdf ) > page 189 and later it seems to me that the ICH8M (just as all the other > Intel-Chipsets I know) officially only supports Ultra ATA 100 (and not > 133!). > > So is the ich_pata_133 correct in the patch (see quoted line above)? > > CU > thl > (please keep the CC). For some strange reason, I can not get the pdf... Anyway, the original patch had "ich_pata_100". see: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide%40vger.kernel.org/msg07416.html but Alan Cox wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide%40vger.kernel.org/msg07417.html > > Its ich_pata_133 - all the newer chips are. They work even better if you > set them into AHCI mode in the BIOS and then they should "just work" with > recent kernels as the AHCI driver now matches by class. > > Alan And "Gaston, Jason D" <jason.d.gaston@xxxxxxxxx> didn't complain about it. it's a "bit" confusing with all "native" AHCI SATA chipset that have to emulate PATA for compatibility reasons... So, whom can we trust? I've seen wrong specs, but you know "To err is human". Thanks, Chr. - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
