Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:45:45 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Supporting ACPI drive hotswap |
| |
>Do you know why the ahci driver won't load?
Undoubtedly the chip is being used in "combined mode", to support a PATA ATAPI device on the second channel.
For that matter, the primary HD is probably actually PATA, perhaps with a SATA bridge on the notebook M/B.
Very very common arrangement these days -- practically all Sonoma Centrino chipset notebooks are set up like this.
Cheers - 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/
| |