On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:11:45PM -0500, Andrew Hogue wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that there is a patch that supposedly enables the S-ATA
> support with this chipset for the latest kernels.
"stock standard" in 2.6.0
Using my MSI Neo K8T:
hvisage@swartes hvisage $ dmesg -s 128000|grep 8237
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
sata_via version 0.11
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD800 ctl 0xD402 bmdma 0xC800 irq 10
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD000 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xC808 irq 10
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 234441648 sectors (lba48)
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : sata_via
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 234441648 sectors (lba48)
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_via
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120026AS Rev: 0.81
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120026AS Rev: 0.81
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
<etc.>
> Has anyone tried this patch? How stable is libata for the VIA chipset...?
On 2.6.0 & 2.6.1 with the gentoo patches, I only have a single drive that
appears to be "problematic", but I suspect either heat or cabling troubles,
as it does the same on the Promise 20378 onboard controller.
Otherwise I can't complain yet.
HEndrik
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