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

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday 30 of October 2003 15:24, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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%20Control
> >ler
> >
> > 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 ...

I even have one such controller,
I just need to find some time and spare drives...

--bartlomiej

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