On  6. October 2003 at 13:09, Thomas Backlund wrote:

> >unfortunately, kt600 chipset isn't still supported. but i found email
> >about this in l-k, where someone wrote that jeff garzik write this
> >driver already..
> 
> In my kernel-tmb series in contrib I have that patch so it should 
> support both intel and Via SATA chipsets, but since I don't have 
> the h/w I cant test it myself... So if anyone feel lucky... 
> please give them a try...

nice, this works for me, thanks thomas for notice.

if i read all correct, this is only temporary solution for via sata
controllers. jeff have documentation from via and he still work at native
driver. support through sata_via works "only" in scsi emulation mode, but it
works :)

some logs:
.....
sata_via version 0.10
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE800 ctl 0xE402 bmdma 0xD800 irq 20
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE000 ctl 0xDC02 bmdma 0xD808 irq 20
ata1: bus reset via SRST
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
ata2: bus reset via SRST
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE007
ata2: thread exiting
scsi1 : sata_via
scsi2 : sata_via
  Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0    Rev: 0.71
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB)
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
.....

# hdparm -t /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  170 MB in  3.00 seconds =  56.67 MB/sec

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