Subject: Re: OF doesn't know my hard drive

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:16:47 +0100

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000, Florent <[email-masked]> 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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