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Author Topic: What Laptops Are Working With A Sata Pcmcia Via Vt6421 Chipset  (Read 15 times)

hackerjoe

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Hi all I have a Gateway MX6956 laptop and tried everything I could find to make the PCMCIA VIA VT6421 be able to get my DVD drive to show in JungleFLasher.
XP see's the card and I even tried to remove the driver as stated in JF also tried to install the UNIATA drivers but it doesn't work.
Funny thing is I tried it with a SIL3112 PCMCIA SATA card and I can see the drive in JF but cant get it into Vendor mode. It goes 0xEF to 0x51 but thats it sometimes 0xEF to 0x50 then back to 0x51.
The SIL3112 also will show my 3.5 SATA Hard drive but the VIA PCMCIA wont show the hard drive so I'm thinking the VIA card doesn't play nice with my motherboard chipset.
Any Ideas would be appreciated!
What laptops are know to work without any issues with the VIA PCMCIA SATA card?

Thanks,

Joe
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