Gaston, Jason D wrote:
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.
Since this is a new, non-PATA, non-SATA controller/device setup, there are a few general questions,
- what to do about cable detection? unless it matters, we could simply assume a fixed cable type, since its a virtual link.
- what is the proper reset method? to kick a device (and controller) into action, we will COMRESET via the SATA phy, or at the very least SRST.
- is set-xfer-mode properly emulated? normally we look at the ATA device's IDENTIFY DEVICE page, and choose a transfer xfer from that info.
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