On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 03:47:35PM +0000, Roger Brooks wrote:
> I too have a BP6, and I've started looking at this.  I *think* the HPT366
> is configured as two single-channel controllers (hence two functions).  At
> least this is how it looks from the BIOS device listing.
> 
> Last year I got hold of some patches for the Linux driver which include
> code for the HPT366.  I haven't got very far (although I've only spent a
> couple of evenings on it up to now):
> 
>     Fixed pciide driver to attach HPT366 even though it's "miscellaneous
>     mass storage".
> 
>     pciide now claims that the controller doesn't support bus-mastering DMA.
>     It then tries to attach it in compatibility mode, and panics shortly
>     after that.  

This is wrong ! This controller can't be in compatible mode, as
the PIIX4 is already here. My guess is that this thing doesn't have the
standart pciide registers.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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