Re: AHCI driver port update - working with hot-plug

2009-06-11 Thread Hasso Tepper
Matthew Dillon wrote: > It's fairly easy to get it wrong and for the system to not be able > to find the root mount, in which case carefully specifying it on the > kernel's mountroot> line should get you into single-user. AFAICS it just continues - ie if you wanted to boot into multi-user, yo

Re: AHCI driver port update - working with hot-plug

2009-06-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have an old motherboard with 2 non-AHCI SATA controllers. Despite preloaded :"ahci.ko" booting the latest snapshot gives the following: Sure, that's to be expected. Since they aren't AHCI-capable the AHCI driver did not pick them up, and the ATA driver did. That's a good test too

Re: AHCI driver port update - working with hot-plug

2009-06-08 Thread Eugene Barsukowski
A letter from Matthew Dillon , Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:35:50 -0700 (PDT): > I am particularly interested in systems which have a separate, > traditional non-AHCI ATA device as well as one or more AHCI devices, > I'd like to know that AHCI picks up the AHCI devices and NATA picks > up t