Hi

did anyone know if this controller is supported by the sata driver?

i cant see anywhere in sdata.c and sdiahci.c. . . i guess it isnt supported at all, so there is no option to fill some "silly" pci-id somewhere to get it going.

The new 9grid.es server has this controller, it would be a pitty not being able to run plan9 on it and be stuck to the 256M-RAM server :(

(output of lspci -v under the linux the server comes with)

00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 AHCI/SATA 4-Port Controller (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 AHCI/SATA 4-Port Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 509
I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
I/O ports at e880 [size=4]
I/O ports at e800 [size=8]
I/O ports at e480 [size=4]
I/O ports at e400 [size=16]
Memory at fbfffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [e0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Kernel driver in use: ahci

thank you very much,

gabi

try http://www.quanstro.net/sdiahci.c.

i hadn't enabled this in the release version because i didn't
have any hardware on which to test. let me know how this
works for you.

- erik

i didn't add support because i didn't have any test hardware.
please try the untested version at http://www.quanstro.net/sdiahci.c.
it should report the via as an unk 4-port hba. "unk" means that there
is no special magic required.

do you need a matching driver for 9load?

- erik

Hi Erik,

I try it this morning, but the server don't boot. I cannot say nothing
about the problem, because the server is "far far away" and we don't have
console.

Probably we need change the 9load to include this SATA support.

Any help?

Thanks Eric,

slds.

pardon the slow response.

could you send me the console output, such as you have?

- erik