From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751343AbWCXSLn (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:11:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751036AbWCXSLn (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:11:43 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:20438 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750821AbWCXSLm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:11:42 -0500 Subject: Re: hpt366 with sata, increase ide controllers From: Alan Cox To: Thomas Stewart Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060324123458.GA26508@stewarts.org.uk> References: <20060324123458.GA26508@stewarts.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:18:11 +0000 Message-Id: <1143224291.20904.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Gwe, 2006-03-24 at 12:34 +0000, Thomas Stewart wrote: > Is there a libata driver, in which case the number of letters would be > a non issue. Or is there a way of getting the hpt366 module to only > grab letters for drives present. Or is there another way to fix it? The libata PATA patch has a patch for the HPT36x/37x but it is fairly early days. It works for me and because the SATA core code knows about PATA/SATA bridge setup does the right mode setting. > As a very quick fix I wrote a patch to get things working. I am in no > way experienced doing any of this stuff so it's mostly guess work. Nor > am I gunning for this to be included. It's mostly just to put it out > there so maybe others with similar problems can get going. Looks sane enough as a hack for the moment.