[gentoo-user] Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

Hi, I have much trouble to get sata working with an Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) interface from a Compaq dc5800. The minimal CD 2008.0 uses the ata driver and not sata so harddisks are registered as /dev/hda. After installation, my custom kernel does the same and I had to disable ata completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

Thanks Nikos, I had a look in the bios, couldn't find AHCI (it's HP Compaq BIOS, not very complete) but changed the translation mode from Automatic to LBA assisted and now it works. Out of curiosity, I reverted the BIOS to defaults (Automatic translation mode) and it still works. So basically I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: David Bourgeois wrote: Thanks Nikos, I had a look in the bios, couldn't find AHCI (it's HP Compaq BIOS, not very complete) PS: You reminded me of one the reasons I don't buy HP or any other generic vendor