On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 10:11 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I'm using a NEC DVD-writer with a SATA->PATA adaptor on the back. As my motherboard has a JMicron IDE controller, it was a pain to install from CD. Once I got the adaptor everything went smoothly
My motherboard has:- * 6 x SATA 3Gb/s offer by Intel? ICH8R support Intel? Matrix Storage Tech(AHCI & RAID0/1/5/10) * 2 x SATA 3Gb/s offer by JMicron? JMB363 support up to 0,1,0+1,JBOD RAID function * 1 x SATA 3Gb/s offer by Silicon Image 3132
...and an IDE interface:- * 1 x Ultra DMA 100/66/33 IDE connector
I have a feeling the IDE may be JMicron like yours, is this a problem if I add an IDE CD drive?
If you want to use the IDE interface part of the JMicron, give the kernel options
all-generic-ide irqpoll
and that should allow it to work. Alledegly 2.6.18 supports the IDE part of the JMicron. The SATA part will be handled by the AHCI driver, so long as it's set to this mode in the BIOS.
I'm only using the Intel interfaces, but the JMicron sockets on my board are detected.
Also, if you motherboard has a Marvell Yukon PCIE Gigabit NIC, you may need to modify sky2.c in the kernel source to add the PCI ID of the latest version of chip.
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4364) },
Be warned though, when the driver initialises or you shut the interface down, you'll get lots of "PHY read timeout errors", but as soon as the interface is up it works fine.
HTH
Chris