Uwe Koziolek 写道: >>>> When we used 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 on ASUS sis-671 motherboard, We have some >>>> problem: cannot find the harddisk controller. >>>> In BIOS, the SATA mode is 2P+2IDE. >>>> >>>> The official kernel 2.6.18, 2.6.20 and new 2.6.21 does not work, i get >>>> some information about sata_sis 0.7.1 from you, may I get it ? >>>> >>>> We are so urgent, please help me. >>>> >>>> Thank you very much!!!! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Asus is selling a P5X-MX SE motherboard with a SiS968 >>> southbridge. The SiS671 Northbridge is not intresting for the SATA-support. >>> Currently it is only planned to support this chipset in >>> AHCI-mode. You should select the AHCI mode for the SATA-ports in the >>> BIOS. The ahci driver should support your board. >>> kernel 2.6.20 should be sufficient. >>> If this does not work, please provide the output of >>> lspci -vvxxx and the selected mode for the SATA-port. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> new message: >> SATA harddisk mode: IDE in BIOS >> Port on SATA2 on motherboard failed. Dmesg said "ata2: SATA link down >> (SStatus 0 SControl 0)". >> Port on SATA1 on motherboard successed, found the harddisk and partitions. >> >> What is the difference between SATA1 port and SATA2 port on motherboard, >> is it a number of SATA port or different SATA version? >> >> >> > The 966/968 has a primary and a secondary controller. Both controllers > are connected with 2 SATA-ports,a master and a slave port. That is > different to other SATA controllers. > > The secondary controller on your board is not connected with SATA-ports. > > The problem: > Slave only configurations may not work.If you are only connecting the > SATA-port 2, you have a slave only configuration. > The ata2 in your dmesg is the unused secondary controller. > > > I have retested the driver with SiS966 and kernel 2.6.22-rc3. It works > correctly on my board on all ports. > > If you want to be sure that the disks are working > Please use the master device (port 1 on your board) > You can also try to use the kernel version i have tested. > > Uwe Koziolek > > Hi, Uwe Koziolek
Thank you for your help. Accroding to your advice, I thought there was some problem in enabling the SATA2 port. And then I get the infomation from sis in china, the port2_start=0x10, so I added it into sata_sis in 2.6.18 and 2.6.20. if(pci_get_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, 0x0966, NULL)) { pci_read_config_dword(pdev, 0x64, &val); if (val & 0x10000000) { dev_printk(KERN_INFO, &pdev->dev, "Detected SiS 1182/1183/966L SATA controller\n"); } else { dev_printk(KERN_INFO, &pdev->dev, "Detected SiS 1182/1183/966 SATA controller\n"); pi.flags |= ATA_FLAG_SLAVE_POSS; } } else { dev_printk(KERN_INFO, &pdev->dev, "Detected SiS 1183/968+ chipset\n"); port2_start = 0x10; } I dont know whether it is needed to make patch for official source code. You Please. Finally, thank you very much. Keep in touch. yulin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html