Re: PROBLEM: ICH7 SATA drive not detected.

2005-02-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
Comment out the function call to piix_disable_ahci() and see what happens. if (port_info[0]->host_flags & PIIX_FLAG_AHCI) { int rc = piix_disable_ahci(pdev); if (rc) return rc; } Regards, Jeff - To unsubscribe from this

[PATCH] Re: AHCI: support for tf_read (RFC)

2005-02-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
Brett Russ wrote: I coded this because ata_pass_thru_cc() (in the dev branch) and other functions call tf_read() which is supported for most except ahci. I've been unable to test because I'm leaving on vacation and am in a last minute rush but wanted to get this out there for comments. Signed-off-b

Re: [patch ide-dev 3/9] merge LBA28 and LBA48 Host Protected Area support code

2005-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
Retested with Hitachi drive and 2.6.10 vanilla kernel. Same behavior, HPA is not reset to native max. Greg -- Greg Freemyer On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:19:52 -0500, Greg Freemyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:30:55 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

RE: PDC20269: Limit on number of controllers?

2005-02-25 Thread Winstel, Drew
> The 2.6.11-rc4 needs .bmdma_stop and .bmdma_status to be defined. >Attached please find the debug patch with the needed hooks. Thanks. The patch did not apply cleanly (only the actual pata_promise driver would patch) against 2.6.10, so I hand-patched both 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc4-bk9, and both

RE: Secondary port on SiS 965

2005-02-25 Thread Dan Greve
I've been successful in using both ports on the 965L rev 01 controller, currently running a 2.6.11-rc3 patched kernel. What version of sata_sis.c are you using? I'm using the latest sata_sis.c (v 0.5) driver from SIS available at http://download.sis.com/download_step2.php?id=155881&agree=1&coun

Re: IDE channels not independent in PIIX4E?

2005-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
I can't speak to your specific motherboard/chipset, but the performance testing I have done shows that the onboard IDE controllers do not have two independent channels, so using both channels does not provide twice the speed of a single channel, not even close. True under both Linux and Windows2K.