IDE with VIA VT6421A on netra T1 ultrasparc II
Hey everybody,
I bought a cheap PCI IDE/SATA/USB controller to expand the capabilities
of my SUN netra T1 AC200 machine.
The card uses a VIA VT6421A chipset for IDE and SATA, and a VIA VT6421T
for USB. The USB part works fine, i couldn't test SATA due to lack of a
SATA drive but the IDE part does not work. ..And that's what i need.
This is the Card in Question: www.ebay.de/itm/130516348316
It does work in a x86 PC and after hours of googling i guess it's
something firmware related. That the card needs some initialisation
which has to be written in fcode. At least that's what i read here:
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Sata-pci-cards-in-ultra-60-or-blade-1000-td4162858.html
The card gets found, but no drivers are seen after probing. I already
tried different drives, 40 and 80-conductor Cables, different lenghts
etc. No change in sympthoms.
Is there any possibility to get this card working on sparc? That would
be *awesome*.
Thanks :)
- Muling
Here a bit of data:
root@netra:~# lspci -nn -k
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Oracle Corporation Simba Advanced PCI Bridge
[108e:5000] (rev 13)
00:01.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Oracle Corporation Simba Advanced PCI Bridge
[108e:5000] (rev 13)
01:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device [0000]: ALi Corporation M7101 Power
Management Controller [PMU] [10b9:7101]
01:05.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Oracle Corporation RIO 10/100
Ethernet [eri] [108e:1101] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: gem
01:05.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Oracle Corporation RIO USB [108e:1103]
(rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
01:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA
Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+] [10b9:1533]
Subsystem: ALi Corporation ALi M1533 Aladdin IV/V ISA Bridge [10b9:1533]
01:0c.0 Bridge [0680]: Oracle Corporation RIO EBUS [108e:1100] (rev 01)
01:0c.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Oracle Corporation RIO 10/100
Ethernet [eri] [108e:1101] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: gem
01:0c.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Oracle Corporation RIO USB [108e:1103]
(rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
01:0d.0 IDE interface [0101]: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE [10b9:5229] (rev c3)
Kernel driver in use: ALI15x3_IDE
02:05.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 62)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
[1106:3038]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
02:05.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 62)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
[1106:3038]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
02:05.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
[1106:3104] (rev 65)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
02:05.3 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE
RAID Controller [1106:3249] (rev 50)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller [1106:3249]
Kernel driver in use: sata_via
02:08.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic
53C896/897 [1000:000b] (rev 07)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI53C896/7 PCI to Dual Channel
Ultra2 SCSI Multifunction Controller [1000:1000]
Kernel driver in use: sym53c8xx
02:08.1 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic
53C896/897 [1000:000b] (rev 07)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI53C896/7 PCI to Dual Channel
Ultra2 SCSI Multifunction Controller [1000:1000]
Kernel driver in use: sym53c8xx
root@netra:~# grep ata /var/log/kern.log
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 114.733251] sata_via 0000:02:05.3:
version 2.4
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 114.733558] sata_via 0000:02:05.3:
routed to hard irq line 14
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 114.810694] scsi1 : sata_via
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 114.851790] scsi2 : sata_via
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 114.893161] scsi3 : sata_via
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 114.932591] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133
port i16@0x1fe02c00240 bmdma 0x1fe02c00280 irq 12
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 115.035752] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133
port i16@0x1fe02c00250 bmdma 0x1fe02c00288 irq 12
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 115.138845] ata3: PATA max UDMA/133
port i16@0x1fe02c00260 bmdma 0x1fe02c00290 irq 12
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 117.008474] ata1: failed to resume link
(SControl 0)
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 117.074108] ata1: SATA link down
(SStatus 0 SControl 0)
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 118.719571] ata2: failed to resume link
(SControl 0)
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 118.784992] ata2: SATA link down
(SStatus 0 SControl 0)
Jan 25 19:05:58 netra kernel: [ 119.432272] ata3.00: NODEV after
polling detection
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