Hi Mark,
I no longer have the card.
~Eric
> eric wrote:
> ..
>>>> We have the HighPoint 1740 SATAII RAID card. I had to modify the
>>>> sata_mv.c
>>>> (attached) to get it to work with my card. The interesting bits are
>>>> as
>>>> follows:
>>>>
>>>> /* RocketRAID 1740/174x have different identifiers */
>>>>
>>>> /* { PCI_VDEVICE(TTI, 0x1740), chip_508x }, */
>>>>
>>>> /* Pozicom: GenII 1740 cards use 88sx6042 chip */
>>>>
>>>> { PCI_VDEVICE(TTI, 0x1740), chip_6042 },
>>>>
>>>> { PCI_VDEVICE(TTI, 0x1742), chip_508x },
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It appears the same card has different chip set depending upon when
>>>> you purchased your card. Looking through the code, the GenI vs. GenII
>> vs.
>>>> GenIIe is done after the call to mv_pci_init_one thus passing a table
>>>> of values that are incorrect. It would appear to make sense to solve
>>>> this by creating two or more tables and make mv_pci_tbl a
>>>> pci_device_id global
>>>> * and
>>>> reference it accordingly after the Rev. level was determined.
> ..
>
> Eric,
>
> I'm patching this (finally, sorry for the delay) for the 2.6.29 kernel.
> Can you confirm that the attached patch works on your system there?
> It should apply/work on any of 2.6.27, 2.6.28, 2.6.29-rc,
> and possibly also on older kernels.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Mark Lord
> Real-Time Remedies Inc.
> mlord@xxxxxxxxx
>
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