Re: Intel X58 eSATA port ?

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.

-- 
Alexander Motin