[mythtv-users] Serial ATA and Gentoo

[Joe Votour]

Just to provide some more information for the person
who originally started this thread.

Some of the Promise SATA cards have GPL'd source
drivers as well (possibly not included in the kernel).
 These cards are:
Promise SATA150 TX4
Promise SATA150 TX2plus
Promise SATA 378
Promise Ultra 618

Posting from LWN here (coming from the kernel-devel
list:
http://lwn.net/Articles/40899/

I know that the Highpoint drivers were binary-only at
one point, I haven't been able to confirm if they
still are.

-- Joe

--- "Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, Oct 9, 2003, at 20:27 US/Pacific, Joe
> Votour wrote:
> 
> > I've never used Gentoo, but Serial ATA device
> support
> > is in the kernel.
> 
> Yes and no. *Some* SATA controllers are supported in
> the kernel. Others 
> are not. If I recall correctly, the ones that are
> definitely in there 
> are 3Ware's, because they use the same driver as
> their PATA (Parallel 
> ATA = ATA/33/66/100/133/etc) controllers. Not sure
> off-hand about any 
> other SATA controllers.
> 
> > As far as I know, there aren't any
> > userspace tools required for it.
> 
> Nope, just drivers, so far as I know.
> 
> > The later Linux 2.4 kernels have support for the
> > Silicon Image SATA chipset - my motherboard has
> one
> > integrated, and although I've never had any drives
> > connected to it, the chip is at least recognized.
> 
> Okay, so at least 3Ware and Silicon Image SATA
> chipsets are supported 
> by the kernel. :)
> 
> > There are some binary-only drivers for some other
> > chipsets (notably HighPoint), but I don't know how
> > recent of a distribution they support (when I was
> > shopping for my motherboard, I wanted to make sure
> > that there was a decent driver for SATA, should I
> end
> > up using it at some point).
> 
> HighPoint... Yes, I believe I recall that's one that
> definitely doesn't 
> work out of the box (which makes installation really
> fun). Not sure 
> about Promise, probably depends if your SATA claims
> to have a RAID 
> controller chip or not. (If it does, it probably
> won't work easily).
> 
> --Jarod
> 
> -- 
> Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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