Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964880AbVKVCop (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:44:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964882AbVKVCop (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:44:45 -0500 Received: from smtp201.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.91]:22642 "HELO smtp201.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964880AbVKVCoo (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:44:44 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=T/oqkGpDI/ZX5hFL1Ap6dyZo4AEHHmLgRkoVQSRbGJqoZbNKnfPsvslWffjSmJFzxk8aEq3pZJqea4g+hXPi+cQ8/sIDixKkzUZNRiQmNnR7tfzJWN6XbCuj5klQvEPhdTB5sZxfYAlSkE+byWeuXbxt8NIcMx7zTFzy/pXMjQ8= ; From: Marek W Reply-To: marekw1977@yahoo.com.au To: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: SATA ICH6M problems on Sharp M4000 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:13:04 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Josh Litherland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, research@emperorlinux.com References: <43824A6F.6070407@emperorlinux.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511221013.04798.marekw1977@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2072 Lines: 47 On Tuesday 22 November 2005 09:39, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > 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? I have exactly the same problem with Asus W3030V which is also equipped with the ICH6M using the 2.6.14 kernel. There are no SATA/PATA options in BIOS for my laptop. kernel options used libata.atapi_enabled=1 ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe -- - Marek W Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/