From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262608AbTJ3QEb (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:04:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262609AbTJ3QEb (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:04:31 -0500 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:37583 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262608AbTJ3QEa (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:04:30 -0500 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Jeff Garzik , Shaheed Subject: Re: WG: EIO DM-8401H ATA133 IDE Controller Card ( Silicon Image Chip ?!?) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:08:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael@labuschke.de References: <200310301312.52793.srhaque@iee.org> <3FA11F00.9020000@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <3FA11F00.9020000@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310301708.54529.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 30 of October 2003 15:24, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Shaheed wrote: > > Interestingly, EXACTLY the same thing happened to me. I actually bought a > > vanilla IDE controller for a spare disk, and in what showed up the > > documentation claimed it was a DM-8401R, but lspci shows what you see: > > and IT8212. > > > > The answer was to get the good stuff from here: > > > > http://www.iteusa.com/productInfo/Download.html#IT8212%20ATA133%20Control > >ler > > > > The driver install was a doddle (well documented, and easy to apply > > Mandrake 9.1 instructions to 9.2). For heavens sake: these guys even > > provide the specs online. And the driver seems to work, though I am not > > stressing it. > > Neat. Even though it's a SCSI driver, it's very definitely a standard > IDE controller, which should be easy for Bart or somebody to add to > drivers/ide ... I even have one such controller, I just need to find some time and spare drives... --bartlomiej