Messages in this thread | | | From | Marek W <> | Subject | Re: SATA ICH6M problems on Sharp M4000 | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:13:04 +1100 |
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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
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