OF doesn't know my hard drive

Benjamin Herrenschmidt bh40 at calva.net
Thu Feb 24 04:16:47 EST 2000


On Wed, Feb 23, 2000, Florent <flobo at iname.com> wrote:

>What's wrong with the second IDE bus ? (/pci/@d/mac-io/ata3)
>Why is it not located next to the first on the OF three ?
>It seems it lacks appropriate methods to handle hard drives correctly...

On the B&W G3 and Yikes G4, the ata3 bus is inside the mac-io ASIC while
the Ultra/ATA bus is a separate PCI controller (CMD646).

OF should contains appropriate methods for both busses. The core ATA
implementation is not in the device nodes themselves but in the various
packages.


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