On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:20, Alan wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:14:55 +0000 > > Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE > > controller and boot off it? > > ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver) deals with the ICH4. pata_mpiix is > specifically for the Intel MPIIX laptop chipset and pata_oldpiix > explicitly for the original PIIX chipset and none of the later ones.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but SATA wasn't available on ICH4. Only 5 and greater. The kernel help text agrees with me. My IDE controller usually works with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX; I was interested in using your pata_xxx drivers in replacement, assuming there was support. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
