Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964951AbXAJRvS (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:51:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964965AbXAJRvS (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:51:18 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.152]:63470 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964951AbXAJRvR (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:51:17 -0500 Message-ID: <45A521A0.9050205@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:25:52 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.7.12-1.4.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lennart Sorensen CC: Prakash Punnoor , Jeff Garzik , Linux kernel Subject: Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18 References: <45A3FF32.1030905@wolfmountaingroup.com> <45A4325C.9060902@garzik.org> <20070110143919.GH17269@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <200701101829.32369.prakash@punnoor.de> <20070110174710.GL17267@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070110174710.GL17267@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> 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: 1135 Lines: 44 Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:29:28PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > > >>You can install the Intel Matrix driver after "adjusting" the inf file... >> >> > >Hmm, I guess a good question is: Why should I have to edit the inf file? >Is it an issue of them making it only install if your hardware is >already set to ahci mode? But how am I supposed to boot and install the >driver until I have the driver installed then. Well I might try that >next time I go there. > >How stupid of intel. > > No doubt part of the Wintel (intel + Microsoft) strategy to perpetually break non-windows platforms with new incompatible hardware like the switch over from the e1000 MT adapters to e1000 GT which are not backward compatible with the older chipsets. I still have not seen the GT adapter work correctly off windows. Jeff :-) Jeff >-- >Len Sorensen > > > - 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/