Re: WG: EIO DM-8401H ATA133 IDE Controller Card ( Silicon ImageChip ?!?)

[Jeff Garzik]

Shaheed wrote:
> Interestingly, EXACTLY the same thing happened to me. I actually bought a 
> vanilla IDE controller for a spare disk, and in what showed up the 
> documentation claimed it was a DM-8401R, but lspci shows what you see: and 
> IT8212.
>
> The answer was to get the good stuff from here:
>
> http://www.iteusa.com/productInfo/Download.html#IT8212%20ATA133%20Controller
>
> The driver install was a doddle (well documented, and easy to apply Mandrake 
> 9.1 instructions to 9.2). For heavens sake: these guys even provide the specs 
> online. And the driver seems to work, though I am not stressing it.


Neat.  Even though it's a SCSI driver, it's very definitely a standard 
IDE controller, which should be easy for Bart or somebody to add to 
drivers/ide ...

	Jeff



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