On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
> Okay, to avoid confusion, I'll be more specific in my statement: This
> isn't your everyday IDE controller. "not supporting" in this case means
> "disks connected to this controller will not be seen by NetBSD (because
> the controller itself is not recognized) and will not be usable in *any*
> mode". Period.
> 
> Unless something has changed in the IDE support since mid December, the
> HPT controller on the Abit BP6 motherboard is not supported *at all* on
> NetBSD, not in any 33 modes, including plain old PIO. (I just tried it
> again to verify that I hadn't missed something earlier).
> 
> The BP6 has 2 dual channel IDE controllers, each channel supporting one
> master and one slave drive (theoretically, you could connect 8 IDE
> devices to this board using just the controllers on the
> motherboard!). The first controller is the one that's part of the BX
> chipset, and it is of course supported just fine in all modes it has (it
> is 33-only). The second is from HighPoint Technologies, it is labelled
> as "HPT366" in the BIOS screen, and probed during boot as:
> 
> Triones Technologies product 0x0004 (miscellaneous mass storage, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 19 function 0 not configured
> Triones Technologies product 0x0004 (miscellaneous mass storage, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 19 function 1 not configured

Oh, OK. It's because it doesn't announce itself as a PCIIDE device.
The fact that is has 2 functions makes me suspect it's not conformant
to the pciide specs. I need the docs to know what to do about this :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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