> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin O'Connor [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:47 PM > To: Myles Watson > Cc: samuel; coreboot > Subject: Re: SeaBIOS and hp dl145g3 > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:24:22AM -0600, Myles Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:07 AM, samuel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:53:13PM +0200, samuel wrote: > > >>> lspci -vnn : http://merlin.ugent.be/~samuel/dl145g3/info/lspci- > vnn.txt > > > > 01:0e.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Broadcom BCM5785 [HT1000] SATA > > (Native SATA Mode) [1166:024a] (prog-if 05) > [...] > > This forces SeaBIOS to see it as a PATA controller, but it's in SATA > mode. > > > > Is there an easy way to add SATA support to SeaBIOS? It sounds like a > > bit of work. It looks like you could force the device to be in PATA > > mode, but once it's booted that's not ideal. > > SeaBIOS only supports PATA mode. To the best of my knowledge, filo > also only supports PATA mode drives (or SATA drives connected to a > PATA compatible controller).
The interesting thing is that filo supports this board even though it is in SATA mode. > I'm not against adding support, but I don't have the knowledge to do > it at this time. No problem. I mostly wanted your opinion on the cleanest and easiest way forward for this box. Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
