VIA SATA update

[Simon at the Threshold]

Lo Chaps,

Well I have had some success in getting the libata SATA drivers working 
with my KV7 motherboard (Via southbridge 8237 chipset).

Basicly after a search of the viaarena forum I discovered a third party 
(Thanks to Pekka Pietikäinen), had built a slightly earlier versio of 
the Fedora core with the 0.81 libata support. This kernel displays 
exactly the same boot infomation has the 2135 kernel) but the O/S has a 
new scsi device I can use to access the driver.

FYI: See http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~pp/fc1-libata/ for more info.

I can only think that a combination of factors has broken SATA in the 
current "offical" fedora release. I've had a look at the kernel source 
but can't spot anything obvious.. Not that I'm much of a kernel hacker 
mind you..

Anyways good news..

Regards
Simon

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