On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:54:49 +0200 > Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I recently needed some more space and bought a Deskstar 7K1000.B for my server. >> The motherboard is old, and did not have SATA port, so I added a >> VT6421 PCI SATA controller. > > Lots of 6421 setups do not work on Linux full stop. I've asked VIA > several times for the relevant data sheet/info to fix this and they've > never done more than acknowledge receipt of the mail. > > Alan > I tried to contact VIA, they said the datasheet have been available for some month, here is the link they gave to me: ftp://vtbridge.org/Docs/Storage/DS_VT6421A_100_CCPL.PDF Thanks, -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net -- 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
