Dear Kernel Devs,
I spent my Samsung RF511 Notebook a OCZ Vertex III SSD. Unfortunately
there seems to be an incompatibility between these. Samsung is not
willing to help me, because they won't support foreign Hard- (OCZ SSD)
and Software (Linux).
I've found the following forum entries which I think is the problem.
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?88340-Vertex-3-Windows-install-in-AHCI-mode-on-Intel-6-series-Chipset-platforms
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?88630-Vertex-3-problem-booting-windows-7-with-HM65-Sandybride-chips-%28Laptops%29/page3
It seems because of this GRUB has problem loading the stages from the
disk in my case.
So my question are:
1. Does this make sense to you? Is it possible that it could be the
reason?
2. Can the problem be solved when I implement a hack into GRUB to
disable the LPM before the stages are loaded from disk?
3. What are the implementation steps which must be done? When I
understand the code in the kernel correctly, the registers are
written over memory mapped areas. Can it be done without mmio?
Thanks a lot!
Kind Regards
Marc
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On 06/08/2011 04:45 PM, Marc Giger wrote:
> Dear Kernel Devs,
>
> I spent my Samsung RF511 Notebook a OCZ Vertex III SSD. Unfortunately
> there seems to be an incompatibility between these. Samsung is not
> willing to help me, because they won't support foreign Hard- (OCZ SSD)
> and Software (Linux).
>
> I've found the following forum entries which I think is the problem.
>
> http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?88340-Vertex-3-Windows-install-in-AHCI-mode-on-Intel-6-series-Chipset-platforms
>
> http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?88630-Vertex-3-problem-booting-windows-7-with-HM65-Sandybride-chips-%28Laptops%29/page3
These are definitely useful data points. CC'ing linux-ide.
Jeff