Re: amd_64 SATA status question

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Douglas Kilpatrick wrote:

> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > The Asus via boards have both VIA and Promise chips that are supported.  
> > The chaintech has 4x promise ports which are supported.  Many boards have 
> > Sil3114, which are not supported yet.
> 
> My board has the Sil3114.  The kernels provided by Fedora come with a 
> driver that is not compiled, but once compiled, It Works For Me (tm).
> 
> (You have to turn on the "allow drivers not expected to compile" option, 
> then select the driver from the libata-based set.  But again, appears to 
> work for me.  Just the lack of support from the stock kernel makes it 
> hard to install to hard drives off of that controller, so I've picked up 
> a different one.)

Yup, SiI3114 with a small patch against vanilla 2.6.3 works for me as well 
but not having it built in makes life unnecessarily difficult :)
Could we have that turned on in the kernel?

	- Panu -