(Sorry, my english is bad) Most recent kernel where this bug did *NOT* occur: 2.6.16(with patch) Distribution: Gentoo Linux Hardware Environment: motherboard - VIA KT880 System controller and 8237 Vlink Client South Bridge PCI-hardware - VIA vt6421 RAID controller with 1 PATA and 2 SATA ports block devices - 1 SATA (connected to motherboard sata) and 5 PATA(2 connected to VIA vt6421 RAID controller and others to motherboard IDE) HDDs Problem Description: My system is on SATA hdd (/dev/sda3). Support of sata_via is compiled-in kernel. System booting is ok. But IDE(PATA) disks connected to via vt6421 is absent in /dev, i.e. kernel can't identify PATA disks. When I use other system (kernel 2.6.16) with such IDE RAID controller, I applied patch to sata_via from Jeff Garzik (http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/11/203) and PATA disks were identified normally. On 2.6.18 this patch isn't work. (Errors during compiling) How can i use PATA disks with via vt6421? Thanks
This belongs to libata, it was filled as IDE probably because it is about PATA support. sata_via driver should drive also PATA port of VIA vt6421 (this is required by the fact that single PCI device controls both SATA and PATA). Jeff, the patch mentioned here was posted more than year ago and as I see vt6421 support is still not in 2.6.20-rc1. Could please describe what needs to be done in order to get it into mergeable state?
Supported in the current release