>>> Gaston, Jason D wrote: >>>> If you disable the IDE Redirection in BIOS on that system, >the 0x29b6 >>>> controller should not appear. If you are not using this, >it would be >>>> interesting to see if this effects what you are seeing. >>> >>> I think its fair to say that a certain amount of Linux users will >>> inevitably have this option enabled in their BIOS. We >should have a >>> plan to deal with this sanely...? >> >> I was able to add the IDER Contoller DeviceID to ata_generic.c and it >> seemed to work fine. I was also able to add it to >ata_piix.c as a SATA >> Controler and it seemed to work ok as well. However, when I tried to >> add it to ata_piix.c as a PATA Controller if failed cable >detection. I >> guess this would be expected as it is a Virtual IDE contoller. >> >> Where is the correct place to add support for IDE Redirection >> Contollers? > >What's IDE redirection? SATA appearing as IDE? > >-- >tejun IDER is a controller, in this case, in the MCH/Northbridge that redirects a virtual drive across the LAN and presents it as a local IDE drive. This is part of the Intel AMT managability engine. You can point it to a physical drive, .iso or a .img file on the remote system. Thanks, Jason -- 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
