ARTSATA(4)

💅 ARTSATA(4) — from the Kernel Interfaces Manual 💅

okay bestie, welcome to ARTSATA(4), the page for the Intel i31244 Serial ATA disk controller driver. it’s giving kernel-interface realness, but make it cute 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

artsata — Intel i31244 Serial ATA disk controller driver. no cap, that’s the whole name vibe 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

artsata* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000
options PCIIDE_I31244_DISABLEDMA

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The artsata driver supports the Intel i31244 Serial ATA and controllers, and it provides the interface with the hardware for the ata(4) driver. so yes, it’s the hardware middleman, and it ate 💅

The 0x0002 flag forces the artsata driver to disable DMA on chipsets for which DMA would normally be enabled. use it as a debugging aid, or to work around problems where the SATA controller is wired up to the system incorrectly. lowkey important, so keep that flag in mind 🎀

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

go read these too, iykyk:

• ata(4)
• atapi(4)
• intro(4)
• pci(4)
• pciide(4)
• wd(4)
• wdc(4)

💀 BUGS 💀

Early samples of the Intel i31244 Serial ATA controller revision 0 had a bug affecting DMA data transfers. Full production samples have been fixed, but they have the same revision number. The PCIIDE_I31244_DISABLEDMA option can be used to disable DMA on the buggy revisions. not me learning this from the BUGS section 😭

xoxo, bestie — source: Debian, date: February 12, 2005, manual page: ARTSATA(4) 💖