From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270750AbTHOTcj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:32:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270755AbTHOTci (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:32:38 -0400 Received: from mrout1.yahoo.com ([216.145.54.171]:19722 "EHLO mrout1.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270750AbTHOTch (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:32:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3D354E.80905@bigfoot.com> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:32:30 -0700 From: Erik Steffl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: SOLVED: Re: SATA (Serial ATA) support in 2.4.x? References: <3F217BE8.5070807@bigfoot.com> <20030725193548.GA14017@gtf.org> <3F2AF529.3040100@bigfoot.com> In-Reply-To: <3F2AF529.3040100@bigfoot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Steffl wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:50:16AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: >> >>> I am specifically interested whether it should support disks above >>> 137GB (as I have problems accessing anything above 137GB on 250GB >>> SATA drive) >> >> >> >> It should. >> >> I will be testing this when I return from OLS, next week. just in case anybody's searching the archives: I got the following advice from Jeff Garzik and it worked (didn't do much testing yet, but at least the whole disk is usable): 2.4.21-ac4 (vanilla plus ac4 patches) create another vanilla tree with libata5 patches, then copy the following files to ac4 tree: drivers/scsi/{ata_piix,libata}.c and include/linux/ata.h build with scsi ata support (make sure you have bios set so that sata drives are seen as sata drives, not legacy ide drives, I only got machines lockups in legacy mode). The disks should be visible as scis disk (/dev/sd[a-z]). libata5 patch: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.4/2.4.21-libata5.patch.bz2 erik