Wes Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Uwe Koziolek wrote:
>
>>Wes Newell wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I've got a Jetway S755MAX that also has a real SIS180 onboard and have
>>>been trying to get PATA support for it without any luck for several
>>>months now. The sata_sis driver from SIS just locks up the machine
>>>when I attach a pata drive. With the help of a few here, I patched the
>>>sis5513 driver, but it has lost interrupt problems. I basically gave
>>>up on this ever working a couple of months ago. Do you think there's
>>>any hope at all? I'm willing to try whatever some can point me
>>>towards, but I'm not a C programmer. I can compile kernels though and
>>>follow instructions.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>The SiS180 has disabled the interrupts by default. You must enable the
>>interrupts in the PCI-config space.
>>You can find a function pci_enable_intx() in the sata_sis.c.
>>
>>regards
>>Uwe Koziolek
>>
>>
>>
> Well, now you've really lost me. I wasn't using sata_sis when I got
> the drive to work with lost interrupts. I was using a patched sis5513
> ide driver. So maybe I should just forget that and say that the

the sis5513 driver is the ide driver and sata_sis for sata/pata.

> machine locks up solid when I try and load sata_sis from
> sis18x_2.6.10_1.00.00. So I really don't understand what you are
> saying I need to do here. Remember, I'm not a C programmer  and only
> came here some months back to see if someone could fix this. I'm
> willing to help in any way I can testing, but if you want me to patch
> something or enable something, you're going to have to lead me by the

Even if it was not perfect as concern the pata support, you may also
test the patch I mailed. 

> hand and show me what code, and exactly where to put within the base
> code. I can find function pci_enable_intx in sata_sis.c, but I don't
> have a clue as to what to do with it and since I wasn't using
> sata_sis, but the sis5513 driver when i could finally see the drives,
> I'm totally lost.

(FYI pci_enable_intx function will disappear. It'll be replaced by pci_intx)

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