Re: hpt366 with sata, increase ide controllers

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2006-03-24 at 12:34 +0000, Thomas Stewart wrote:
> Is there a libata driver, in which case the number of letters would be
> a non issue. Or is there a way of getting the hpt366 module to only
> grab letters for drives present. Or is there another way to fix it?

The libata PATA patch has a patch for the HPT36x/37x but it is fairly
early days. It works for me and because the SATA core code knows about
PATA/SATA bridge setup does the right mode setting.

> As a very quick fix I wrote a patch to get things working. I am in no
> way experienced doing any of this stuff so it's mostly guess work. Nor
> am I gunning for this to be included. It's mostly just to put it out
> there so maybe others with similar problems can get going.

Looks sane enough as a hack for the moment.

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