Re: Using SATA in PATA compatible mode?

From: Adriaan Peeters (apeeters@lashout.net)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 07:01:53 EST


On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 03:00, Alan Cox wrote:

> Promise 20376 - Promise have a GPL driver but there are integration
> things to resolve (mostly our end not theirs)

Oh, this would be very good news. As there was no GPL'ed driver for this
chipset, I bought one with a SiI3112 chipset.
Where can this driver be found ? As when I mailed promise about a week
ago, they stated:

> The source code for the SATA chips will not be released, due to
competitive
> reasons. We support the linux distributions of Suse and Redhat mainly.
>
> A partial open source code will become available in due time, but we do not
> expect that this year.

I hope they changed course :)

It would be nice to have a reference to the drivers in the lkml
archives.

-- 
Adriaan Peeters <apeeters@lashout.net>

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