>> the VIA machine is the one that got me lots of trouble >> with the >> SATA until i hacked a bruteforce retry-n-reset-loop in the ide driver, > > Me too. Maybe one of us should submit a patch?
is this one of the via chipsets that may also be driven as ahci? ahci should show up with class/subclass/ccrp as 01.06.01. as in: x.y.z: disk 01.06.01 vid/did 11 0:x 16 1:x 16 2:x 16 3:x 16 4:x 16 5:y != 0 1024 (or bigger) i was just taking a look at the linux driver and it looks like nvidia and sis should just work. (anybody with such hardware care to test?) there were just a couple of tweeks that the linux guys felt necessary with via, but i didn't look carefully enough to see of they apply to the plan 9 driver, as i have no hardware. - erik
