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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:14:15 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
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Subject: Re: Supporting ACPI drive hotswap
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On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 03:45:45PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> >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.

Yeah, I'd guess something along those lines. The CD drive presents as 
SATA, but looks more like a PATA part. pci_request_regions fails when 
trying to load ahci. It's a Sonoma system (Dell Latitude D610)

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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