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On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:11:00PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I'm trying to install Linux on a SATA disk in a Dell PowerEdge 750, which has > an Intel 82875P chipset with an Intel 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller. [snip] > I looked at ata_piix.c, and apparently the driver decides whether a port is > disabled by checking a bit in PCI config space, so this looks like a BIOS setup > problem to me. But the BIOS has the first SATA port enabled (`AUTO', and it > does see a 80 GB disk there), while the PATA and second SATA ports are marked > `OFF'. Right. At present you need to enable the second SATA port in the BIOS. Disabling it also disables the first port from being recognized by the driver. It's a figment of the "compatability mode" that the PE750 runs in. I believe Stuart Hayes sent Jeff a patch to address this, but I can't find it handy... -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.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/ | ||||||||||||
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