2009/7/13 erik quanstrom <[email protected]>: > after a week of fighting with an atom with ich7r sata in > ide mode, i finally found the secret sauce that keeps it > from "hanging." i pushed out a changed > quanstro/9load-e820 and quanstro/sd which boot on my > atom machine in ide mode without causing interrupt storms. > other changes were included work around ahci power quirks > for this chipset, if your bios supports it, i would recommend > ahci mode. i also pushed out a version of ether8169 as > quanstro/8169 that supports the particular 8169 macs that > are in my atom machine (and jumbo frames). > > i have a feeling that these changes may be helpful in > correcting other intel ich-based ide problems. i've got > an intel ich6-based machine that has exhibited similar > symptoms at work that i hope to test tomorrow. > > i'll be interested to hear if these changes work for > other people. > > - erik
This sounds promising for that ICH laptop with the 320G drive that magically doesn't work (though the 120GB one that was in it was fine). How do I get this on a disc to try it out? --dho
