>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. > > Jeff The datasheet for the Intel(3) 3 Series Chipset Family is up on intel.com. Here is a direct link: http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/31696602.pdf It looks like section 9.3 has the details for the IDER. This is somewhat over my head, can you help me with this? 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
