Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS and hp dl145g3

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin O'Connor [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:47 PM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: samuel; coreboot
> Subject: Re: SeaBIOS and hp dl145g3
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:24:22AM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:07 AM, samuel
>
> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Kevin O'Connor
>
> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:53:13PM +0200, samuel wrote:
> > > > > lspci -vnn : http://merlin.ugent.be/~samuel/dl145g3/info/lspci-
>
> vnn.txt
> > 01:0e.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Broadcom BCM5785 [HT1000] SATA
> > (Native SATA Mode) [1166:024a] (prog-if 05)
>
> [...]
> > This forces SeaBIOS to see it as a PATA controller, but it's in SATA
>
> mode.
> > Is there an easy way to add SATA support to SeaBIOS?  It sounds like a
> > bit of work.  It looks like you could force the device to be in PATA
> > mode, but once it's booted that's not ideal.
>
> SeaBIOS only supports PATA mode.  To the best of my knowledge, filo
> also only supports PATA mode drives (or SATA drives connected to a
> PATA compatible controller).

The interesting thing is that filo supports this board even though it is in
SATA mode.
> I'm not against adding support, but I don't have the knowledge to do
> it at this time.

No problem.  I mostly wanted your opinion on the cleanest and easiest way
forward for this box.

Thanks,
Myles