From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264496AbTLCDni (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:43:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264497AbTLCDni (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:43:38 -0500 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:59287 "EHLO codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264496AbTLCDnf (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:43:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:43:37 -0700 From: Erik Andersen To: Joe Blow Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise 20378 + 2.6.0-test10 + libata patch 1 Message-ID: <20031203034337.GA14398@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: Erik Andersen , Joe Blow , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.19-rmk7, Rebel-NetWinder(Intel StrongARM 110 rev 3), 185.95 BogoMips X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed Dec 03, 2003 at 03:10:10AM +0000, Joe Blow wrote: > >From: Erik Andersen > >What exactly is needed to get got SATA and PATA support > >comparable to the driver provided by promise? Would it be > >possible to adapt the existing promise PATA IDE driver to drive > >the PATA port, while the libata Promise driver handles the SATA > >ports. Or would a new driver be needed? > > Is there actually a Promise supplied driver that might work with the 20378 > and PATA drives? Someone sent me a .zip file with an open source driver > from Promise dated 02/20/03 but it's for 2.4.x. I emailed Promise asking > if there was an update, and they denied it even existed. http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=97&category=driver&os=4 http://www.promise.com/support/file/driver/1_SATALINUXSRC1.00.0.8.zip -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--