help generating good id string for ATA id fix (Via VB8001)
Maxim Sobolev
sobomax at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 19 11:32:23 PST 2009
George Hartzell wrote:
> I have a Via VB8001 running -CURRENT. The disk controllers aren't
> recognized and end up running in UDMA33.
>
> The following patches to things under /usr/src/sys/dev/ata recognize
> my drives as SATA300.
>
> I don't know how to figure out what id strings to use though,
> everything I've found about the board claims that the chip is a 8237S,
> which is already used. Clearly calling it the GH is a hack.
>
> How can I track down the correct info so that I can submit a useful
> PR?
Why does it matter so much? Call it ATA_VIA8237S_1 or ATA_VIA8237S_5372
for example, this is definitely not the first time in history when
vendor use different PCI Id for the different silicon revisions of the
same part.
-Maxim
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