FYI: DID 2850 is the PATA IDE controller. Most likely, the laptop does not have SATA drives and is running off of PATA.
The old IDE subsystem (piix.c) is where I added that PATA DID to. #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ICH8_6 0x2850 in pci_ids.h Jason >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-ide- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chr >Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:53 AM >To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: libata: ATA_PIIX missing ICH8M PCIIDs. > >On Monday, 18. June 2007, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:20:06 +0200 >> Chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I got a new laptop and I had a little problem that the DVD drive wasn't >recognized by >> > libata's piix driver (but the old IDE Subsystem found it!). >> > >> > So, after adding the new pciid 8086:2850 it works! >> > But, I don't know if it's ich_pata_100 or ich_pata_133 since the >> > dvd/cd drives only goes up to udma2 speeds. >> >> Its ich_pata_133 - all the newer chips are. They work even better if you >> set them into AHCI mode in the BIOS and then they should "just work" with >> recent kernels as the AHCI driver now matches by class. >> >> Alan >> >> > >No go.. I've tried 2.6.20-1-amd64 (debian sid) and a vanilla 2.6.22-rc5. > >(The "problem" is that there are no options for that in the BIOS. >The BIOS itself is only useful on these laptops, if you want to set a BIOS >password, setting the system clock or change the boot order... and nothing >else) > >Thanks, > Chr. >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
