i386/75387: [ata] feature request: support of Promise SATAII150
TX4 wanted
Søren Schmidt
sos at FreeBSD.ORG
Wed Nov 16 14:20:16 PST 2005
The following reply was made to PR i386/75387; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos at FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.ORG, sebastian.holmqvist at gmail.com
Subject: Re: i386/75387: [ata] feature request: support of Promise SATAII150 TX4 wanted
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:12:47 +0100
On 14/11/2005, at 21:44, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> My new SATA300 TX2plus is now working thanks to the very simple =20
> trick found
> at:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2005-October/=20
> 002893.html
>
> Just use `pciconf -lv' to find the card's ID (card=3D...) and add it =20=
> to the
> ata-driver's table cloning an entry, that is the closest match.
>
> Yes, it only makes it work at SATA150 speeds. But it is soo much =20
> better, than
> not work at all, that I'm happy. The disk is really a bottleneck =20
> anyway.
>
> The PR is 13 months old now. That even the simple work-around patch =20=
> is not in
> the tree, is a bloody shame...
>
> -mi
> <ata-id.diff>
Hmm, in 6.0 and current the SATA2 promise chips are supported, =20
however 3Gb is untested as I have no such equipment here. However, =20
your chipid is unknown to me but you coud try to add it like the =20
pdc40718/719 and let me know if that works.
I'll ask promise about that chip, can you verify the chip type by =20
reading whats printed on its back please ?
S=F8ren Schmidt
sos at FreeBSD.org
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