Karl Denninger wrote:
>>From the online man page for ata.4, which is EXPLICITLY referenced as THE
>authoritative list of which disk controllers it supports:
>
>
>The currently supported ATA/SATA controller chips are:
>
> Acard: ATP850P, ATP860A, ATP860R, ATP865A, ATP865R
> ALI: Aladdin (ALi5229) compatible chips.
> AMD: AMD756, AMD766, AMD768, AMD8111.
> CMD: CMD646, CMD648, CMD649.
> Cypress: Cypress 82C693.
> Cyrix: Cyrix 5530.
> HighPoint: HPT302, HPT366, HPT366, HPT368, HPT370, HPT371, HPT372,
> HPT374.
> Intel: PIIX, PIIX3, PIIX4, ICH, ICH0, ICH2, ICH3, ICH4, ICH5.
> ITE: IT8212F.
> National: SC1100.
> nVidia: nForce, nForce2, nForce3.
> Promise: PDC20246, PDC20262, PDC20263, PDC20265, PDC20267,
> PDC20268, PDC20269, PDC20270, PDC20271, PDC20275,
> PDC20276, PDC20277, PDC20318, PDC20319, PDC20371,
> PDC20375, PDC20376, PDC20377, PDC20378, PDC20379,
> PDC20617, PDC20618, PDC20619, PDC20620.
>
>
Karl, Thanks for listing this. I overlooked that my older Promise 20265
on this other
box is "supposedly" supported. Now I wonder what will happen when I try it.
John
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