Re: ata_piix: port disabled. ignoring.

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 05:59:31 EST



On Mon, 24 May 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 of May 2004 09:48, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Tue, 18 May 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > On Monday 17 of May 2004 16:19, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > > If I disable CONFIG_SCSI_SATA, IDE works, but very slow (no DMA).
> > > >
> > > > due to CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=n but ata_piix.c is prefferred for SATA
> > >
> > > No, I had
> > >
> > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
> > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
> > >
> > > but I get an error when trying to enable DMA using hdparm.
> >
> > I suppose that you're using chipset which ID is not in piix.c.
> > If not than this is a bug and I would like to know more about it.
>
> Upon closer look, piix.c doesn't recognize the ESB_3 yet. If I add it to

This is intended, new SATA chipsets belong to ata_piix.c.

> piix.[ch] and treat it the same as the ICH5-SATA, the SATA disk gets 57 MiB/s
> using the PATA piix driver.

OK, thanks.

Cheers,
Bartlomiej
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