success with GA-K8VNXP but problem with IDE disk
Gary Jennejohn
garyj at jennejohn.org
Mon Jan 12 11:42:51 PST 2004
"David O'Brien" writes:
> 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.
>
But it doesn't have the ID listed in the header-file for the VT8237.
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Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org gj[at]denx.de
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