Re: AHCI support on Intel chipsets (confusion?)

2006-12-02 Thread Leon Woestenberg
Wayne, On 12/2/06, Wayne Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Garzik, ... my decision on the kernel source code. It seems to indicate the Intel ICH7 is AHCI compatible: We (yesterday) found out that our board (a Supermicro PDSMI+, ICH7 as well) needs the proper BIOS setting in order for it

Re: AHCI support on Intel chipsets (confusion?)

2006-12-02 Thread Wayne Sherman
Leon, Thanks for the reply. I have enabled SATA Enhanced mode, but still did not see any mention of AHCI in my dmesg output. I also did not find a setting for AHCI in the BIOS. My board is a Gigabyte: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2304 I

Re: AHCI support on Intel chipsets (confusion?)

2006-12-02 Thread Wayne Sherman
Leon, Leon Woestenberg wrote: We (yesterday) found out that our board (a Supermicro PDSMI+, ICH7 as well) needs the proper BIOS setting in order for it to appear as a AHCI capable controller. I just checked your motherboard:

Re: [PATCH] (2.6.19-rc6-mm2) pdc202xx_new cleanup

2006-12-02 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Sergei Shtylyov wrote: I believe this is completely the wrong thing to do. Adding a ton of changes to the existing (and stable) life expired drivers/ide driver rather than keeping new and risky stuff in the new libata code is bad. The new and risky stuff is long agon in there.

Support for Promise SATA300 TX2plus ?

2006-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jeff, I'm trying to get a Promise SATA300 TX2plus working on a PPC box running a more or less vanilla 2.6.19 kernel. bash-3.00# lspci -vx 00:0c.0 Class 0180: 105a:3d73 (rev 02) Subsystem: 105a:3d73 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 25