From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262566AbTJ3OYQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:24:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262567AbTJ3OYP (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:24:15 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:48594 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262566AbTJ3OYO (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:24:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA11F00.9020000@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:24:00 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shaheed CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael@labuschke.de Subject: Re: WG: EIO DM-8401H ATA133 IDE Controller Card ( Silicon Image Chip ?!?) References: <200310301312.52793.srhaque@iee.org> In-Reply-To: <200310301312.52793.srhaque@iee.org> 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 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%20Controller > > 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 ... Jeff