On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:32:50 +0000 Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but SATA wasn't available on ICH4. Only 5 and > greater. The kernel help text agrees with me. > > My IDE controller usually works with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX; I was interested in > using your pata_xxx drivers in replacement, assuming there was support.
The ata_piix driver does both SATA and PATA for the later chips. The reason for this is that the SATA ICH devices have PATA ports as well which are closely interlinked in how they operate. Since the ata_piix driver has to drive those and the PATA only ones from PIIX3 onward are similar it handles them all. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
