Subject: Re: SATA on VIA VT8237
To: Sean Davis <dive-nb@endersgame.net>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/25/2004 17:09:23
At 04:40 PM 10/25/2004, Sean Davis wrote:
>Does anyone know if the SATA on the VIA VT8237 South Bridge is supported (or
>will be in the very near future?) I've got a machine coming with a
>KT600-chipset motherboard, and would like to run NetBSD on it. As it's for
>work purposes, I will be forced to run Whatever Works, aka FreeBSD, if
>NetBSD-current doesn't support it :\

Seems to for me (this is from an amd64 system):

viaide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0
viaide0: VIA Technologies VT8237 SATA Controller (rev. 0x80)
viaide0: bus-master DMA support present
viaide0: primary channel wired to native-PCI mode
viaide0: using ioapic0 pin 20 (irq 11) for native-PCI interrupt
atabus0 at viaide0 channel 0
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <WDC WD2500JD-22FYB0>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 232 GB, 484521 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 488397168 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
wd0(viaide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA 
data transfers)



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