SOLVED: Re: SATA (Serial ATA) support in 2.4.x?

[Erik Steffl]

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


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