Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751187AbVKUWju (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:39:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751193AbVKUWjt (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:39:49 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:63367 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751187AbVKUWjV (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:39:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:39:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Josh Litherland cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, research@emperorlinux.com Subject: Re: SATA ICH6M problems on Sharp M4000 In-Reply-To: <43824A6F.6070407@emperorlinux.com> Message-ID: References: <43824A6F.6070407@emperorlinux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1644 Lines: 39 On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Josh Litherland wrote: > > Trying to get this laptop operational; it has SATA for the hard disc and > PATA for the optical drive. The hard drive is wired to the secondary > IDE interface, the optical to the primary. As it stands, driving the > whole system with the PATA (piix) driver works, but performance for the > hard disc is (predictably) extremely poor. With ata_piix driving the > hard drive, performance is great, but the optical device is never > enumerated. When the piix driver tries to load, the following occurs: > > ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free. > ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe > ide1: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free. > ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe > > We have tried to resolve this through a wide variety of kernel command > line options. Tried every combination we could think of of ide0=0x1f0, > ide1=0x170, ide0=noprobe, ide1=noprobe, acpi=off, noapic, lapic, > pci=routeirq. Tried shaking up module load order and using ide-generic > instead of piix. ahci won't bind to the device; throws error -12. > > Some information about this system including dmesg and lspci: > > http://downloads.emperorlinux.com/research/lkml/sharp_m4000/ > > Thanks in advance for any advice you can give. Is there a BIOS option for SATA or AHCI modes, like Compatible mode or Enhanced mode? If so, which mode is it in? -- ~Randy - 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/