Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 10:31:02 -0400
To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE/ATA: Intel i865-based mainboard, CDROM not detected
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On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:37:21AM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> The CDROM was showing up in the POST in all cases.
> 
> It turns out the problem (as I outlined in a followup post) resulted from a
> combination of issues.
> 
>  1) This board uses a Marvell PATA controller, so the relevant driver must
>     be configured.
> 
>  2) Unless the "Configure SATA as" setting in the BIOS is set to "AHCI" the
>     PATA controller won't be found.  Sounds a bit odd and counter-intuitive,
>     but that's what's happening.  Originally this item was set to IDE; the
>     other option is RAID but I haven't tested that.

Maybe the SATA pretending to be PATA took up the ports that the marvell
PATA needed to provide PATA, so in effect hidding the marvell.

--
Len Sorensen
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