Nvidia nforce2 sata controller

[Søren Schmidt]

Lucas Holt wrote:
> I have a MSI k7n2 delta2 lsr motherboard (msicomputer.com).  Odd as it 
> sounds, it has a nvidia sata controller.  From a post on current in 
> december, I learned it uses the pata controller and another chip in 
> front of it.  The sata controller is not detected by 5-STABLE and i'd 
> like to see it included.  I noticed the how to write a problem report 
> documentation recommended bouncing things off a mailing list first.  
> Here i am.
> 
> I've played around with the sources of the ata driver and managed to get 
> the card to report properly with hints from that thread in december on 
> current.  I also figured out that having the controller initialize with 
> the sata init routine instead of the via init seemed to make it work and 
> negotiate SA150.
> 
> i'm still having a few stability problems with the system.  I don't know 
> if its the driver  or my NIC.  It tends to only happen when i'm using 
> the network (cvsup, etc) so i'm not sure.

You should try out -current as it has support for the nVidia chips 
already...


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-Søren