[Bug 33030] No SATA support for VIA VT8251 (e.g. on ASUS A8V MX)

[Albrecht Gebhardt]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/33030

Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
for the wishlist: include VIA VT8251 SATA support

The current kernel does not support the SATA controller found on ASUS
A8V MX boards (which contains the VIA VT8251 southbridge as part of the
VIA K8M880 chipset).

A patch is already available
(http://grivell.home.comcast.net/via_ahci.patch) and discussed here:

http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=68455

I'm currently using this patch on top of the latest (16.23, 15.21)
dapper kernels without problems for some weeks (runing several md raid1
partitions).

Albrecht