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Re: [suse-amd64] S-ATA 3114, SuSE 9.0 and more than 2 disks
- From: Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 06:51:35 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <87n04k4tnj.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Andy C (EPoX UK)" <andy@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> Does the 9.0 dist. Have driver for 3112a and 9.1 for 3114 ?
Yes. The SuSE 9.0 for AMD64 has a backported module from the 2.6-kernel
series. On the 9.1 it works perfectly fine with 4 disks attached, on the
9.0 SuSE tries to do a partition check during boot and it stops responding
here.
> 3112a is only a 2 device PCI controller, whereas 3114 a 4 device; I know
> that we can here under MS Windows force a 3112 driver to use 2 ports of 3114
> (as we did 12 months ago whilst developing board using 3114 before working
> driver existed).
I know. I'm watching the sources for the S-ATA modules since several months
and I remember that the first attempts were based on a 3112 module and the
wish of the module developer to find out the registers he has to access
to make use of the other 2 channels.
Well, since the module is just about 400 LoC I guess it shouldn't be a
big deal to find out the things that need to be changed. Only that I
would prefer if someone that already "backported" that module would do
it instead of me. :-) Ok, I'm not afraid to dig into the kernel sources
and it will be a nice practise but I wonder if my boss is happy if I
start kernel hacking now. :-)
Regards
Rainer
--
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig
Project Manager Linux
Fujitsu-Siemens VP BC E SW OS
Phone: +49-821-804-3321
Fax: +49-821-804-2131
> Does the 9.0 dist. Have driver for 3112a and 9.1 for 3114 ?
Yes. The SuSE 9.0 for AMD64 has a backported module from the 2.6-kernel
series. On the 9.1 it works perfectly fine with 4 disks attached, on the
9.0 SuSE tries to do a partition check during boot and it stops responding
here.
> 3112a is only a 2 device PCI controller, whereas 3114 a 4 device; I know
> that we can here under MS Windows force a 3112 driver to use 2 ports of 3114
> (as we did 12 months ago whilst developing board using 3114 before working
> driver existed).
I know. I'm watching the sources for the S-ATA modules since several months
and I remember that the first attempts were based on a 3112 module and the
wish of the module developer to find out the registers he has to access
to make use of the other 2 channels.
Well, since the module is just about 400 LoC I guess it shouldn't be a
big deal to find out the things that need to be changed. Only that I
would prefer if someone that already "backported" that module would do
it instead of me. :-) Ok, I'm not afraid to dig into the kernel sources
and it will be a nice practise but I wonder if my boss is happy if I
start kernel hacking now. :-)
Regards
Rainer
--
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig
Project Manager Linux
Fujitsu-Siemens VP BC E SW OS
Phone: +49-821-804-3321
Fax: +49-821-804-2131
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