success with GA-K8VNXP but problem with IDE disk

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun Jan 11 16:29:17 PST 2004


On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:44:09PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> I see the same ID and REV with my VT8237. The weird thing is that
> 0x05711106 is listed as the ID for the ATA_VIA82C571 in
> /sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h. I wonder if VIA is recycling ID numbers?
> Christ, that would be a real PITA!

AFAIK, VIA only created an AGP controller for AMD64 -- they use their
existing southbridges as VIA uses "V-Link" between their chips.  So there
was no need to create a new southbridge for AMD64.  So I'm surprised
there's a problem recognizing the ATA controller.


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