Intel X58 eSATA port ?

[Alexander Motin]

Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:51:43PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
>> Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>>        I turned it on, but still no luck. Attached is the verbose 
>>> dmesg.boot.  I wonder if the extra controller is being mis-identified as 
>>> being PATA ? As far as I can tell, there are no legacy PATA connectors 
>>> on the board
>>>
>>> Yet
>>> atapci0: <Marvell 88SX6121 UDMA133 controller> port 
>>> 0x2018-0x201f,0x2024-0x2027,0x2010-0x2017,0x2020-0x2023,0x2000-0x200f 
>>> mem 0xe1100000-0xe11003ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci6
>>>
>>> implies its a PATA device ?
>> It is or PATA controller, or SATA in legacy emulation mode. As I can see 
>> on web, there are also AHCI capable SATA channels present on this chip:
>> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2007-July/000070.html
>> How it is reported in pciconf? May be there is some way to make AHCI 
>> attach it? Isn't there any options about it's operation in BIOS?
>>
>> Don't you have any datasheet for this device?
>>
>> Also a bit strange for me this messages:
>> ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
>> ata0: reset tp1 mask=00 ostat0=ff ostat1=ff
>> ata0: [MPSAFE]
>> ata0: [ITHREAD]
>> ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0
>> ata1: reset tp1 mask=00 ostat0=ff ostat1=ff
>> ata1: [MPSAFE]
>> ata1: [ITHREAD]
>> channels 0 and 1 are legacy ATA channels. A bit strange to see them when 
>> AFAIK there is no PATA support on ICH10. If it is not a parts of 
>> Marvell, then I have no idea what is this.
> 
> Many boards which have an ICH10 use the Marvell (or similar chips) to provide
> 1 PATA board for like CD-Rom drives. The DFI board I have does the same.

Sure, I just was surprised that external PCI controller reported as 
legacy. If it is parts of the same controller, then it looks messy.

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Alexander Motin