It seems Mikael Hubsch wrote: > > Bought a new Athlon motherboard with a KT400A + VT8237 chipset. > A RELENG_5_2 built at Dec 29, says that atapci0 is a > "GENERIC ATA controller" that only handles UDMA33. > boot -v output can be found at http://hubsch.org/freebsd/boot52_2.txt. > > ata-chipset.c have code that should recognize the VT8237 but it seems that > the wrong chipid (0x3149) is used. According to the first url below, that > chipid is for the standalone SATA card VT6420. VIA have released patches > to have Linux recognize the VT8237 that uses chipid 0x3227 (url2 below). > This chipid is also found on my motherboard. > > URL1: > http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=1106 > URL2: > http://downloads.viaarena.com/LinuxApplicationNotes/Sep03/VIA%20IDE%20ATA133%20Patch%208237%20ver0.8.gz > > These is yet another problem to have FreeBSD recognize my IDE controller. > The code in ata-chipset.c requires that the ISA bridge have the > same slot id as the VIA IDE controler (0x0571). This is not the case on > my motherboard. As shown in the boot -v output the ide controller is > at slot 15 and the isa bridge is at slot 17. Could you mail me the output of "pciconf -l" from the system please ? Also what make/model is this board ? It seems VIA now has several ways to connect these chips, do you have SATA ports on this board as well ? -Søren Yes I know it works under windows!!Received on Fri Jan 02 2004 - 14:33:39 UTC
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