Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750718AbVIXTpt (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:45:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750722AbVIXTps (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:45:48 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:38084 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbVIXTpr (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:45:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4335ACE9.7070009@rtr.ca> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:45:45 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Matthew Garrett , acpi-support@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Supporting ACPI drive hotswap References: <20050924164823.GA24351@srcf.ucam.org> <20050924124050.1955c290.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20050924124050.1955c290.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 17 >Do you know why the ahci driver won't load? Undoubtedly the chip is being used in "combined mode", to support a PATA ATAPI device on the second channel. For that matter, the primary HD is probably actually PATA, perhaps with a SATA bridge on the notebook M/B. Very very common arrangement these days -- practically all Sonoma Centrino chipset notebooks are set up like this. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/