Re: Highpoint IDE types

[Bill Davidsen]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2005-11-08 at 21:02 +0200, Ville SyrjÃlà wrote:
>
> > > *      HPT372                  4 (HPT366)      5     
> > > *      HPT372N                 4 (HPT366)      6     
> > > *      HPT372                  5 (HPT372)      0
> >
> >          ^^^^^^
> >
> > This one is called HPT372A by Highpoint's BIOS/Win drivers.
> >
> > Also I'm not sure if it's relevant but PCI ID 5 chips use a different
> > BIOS image than PCI ID 4 chips.
>
>
> I suspect it is relevant because the "372A" appears to have a different
> base clock to the HPT372.
>
> Added to the list.
May we assume that this information was gathered in the interest of 
something beyond pedantic curiousity? Will this simplify the driver 
code, improve performance or reliability, etc?

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