Re: Promise 20376 support

Daniela Engert (dani@ngrt.de)
Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:58:24 +0100 (CET)


On 30 Dec 2002 20:54:03 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

>> I've got this Asus A7V8X motherboard that contains a promise 20376
>> sata-ide (raid) controller.
>
>No work, no documentation. If its just a SATA bridge with an existing
>ATA controller then you may find you can just add the PCI identifiers
>and pretend its a 20276. If it has other new and wonderous features you
>may be completely screwed

Quite some time ago I had a look at their Windows drivers. From the
driver structure, the function names and the actual register accesses I
had the impression that this chip differs largely from the ATA/ATAPI
Host Adapter Standard as decribed in the ANSI committee T13 document
1510D (which happens to be the basis of most of the Linux ATA/ATAPI
drivers). I may be wrong and happily defer to the opposite.

Ciao,
Dani

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