On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:27:30 +0100 (CET) Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote:
> We still have some some issues with SATA/AHCI on NVIDIA chipsets. If > you have a machine, could you send me the following information: > > * dmesg > * output of 'pcidump -vxx' > * BIOS setting (IDE/SATA/AHCI/RAID) if your BIOS provides that opportunity > * short description of any changes (BIOS settings, kernel config) you > need to make to get things working. > > If your machine has the possibility to change the mode of the disk > controller in the BIOS, and you're willing to spend some time, please > try them all and and send me a report for all of these. Note that > this may cause your disk to change from wd* to sd* or the other way > around. So you may need to (temporarily) change your /etc/fstab. > > Thanks, > > Mark > I have an old athlon 64 nvidia board that used to work with 3.8 but last time I tried it (I think 4.6), it wouldn't boot (kernel restart) without disabling usb in the bios. I use OpenBSD on i386 so it's no issue to me but I've no problem running some info gathering etc. but are you wanting to concentrate on the newer boards, possibly being less troublesome and more useful to get working for hardware released in the future?
