>>> When we used 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 on ASUS sis-671 motherboard, We have some >>> problem: cannot find the harddisk controller. >>> In BIOS, the SATA mode is 2P+2IDE. >>> >>> The official kernel 2.6.18, 2.6.20 and new 2.6.21 does not work, i get >>> some information about sata_sis 0.7.1 from you, may I get it ? >>> >>> We are so urgent, please help me. >>> >>> Thank you very much!!!! >>> >>> >> Asus is selling a P5X-MX SE motherboard with a SiS968 >> southbridge. The SiS671 Northbridge is not intresting for the SATA-support. >> Currently it is only planned to support this chipset in >> AHCI-mode. You should select the AHCI mode for the SATA-ports in the >> BIOS. The ahci driver should support your board. >> kernel 2.6.20 should be sufficient. >> If this does not work, please provide the output of >> lspci -vvxxx and the selected mode for the SATA-port. >> >> >> > new message: > SATA harddisk mode: IDE in BIOS > Port on SATA2 on motherboard failed. Dmesg said "ata2: SATA link down > (SStatus 0 SControl 0)". > Port on SATA1 on motherboard successed, found the harddisk and partitions. > > What is the difference between SATA1 port and SATA2 port on motherboard, > is it a number of SATA port or different SATA version? > > The 966/968 has a primary and a secondary controller. Both controllers are connected with 2 SATA-ports,a master and a slave port. That is different to other SATA controllers. The secondary controller on your board is not connected with SATA-ports. The problem: Slave only configurations may not work.If you are only connecting the SATA-port 2, you have a slave only configuration. The ata2 in your dmesg is the unused secondary controller. I have retested the driver with SiS966 and kernel 2.6.22-rc3. It works correctly on my board on all ports. If you want to be sure that the disks are working Please use the master device (port 1 on your board) You can also try to use the kernel version i have tested. Uwe Koziolek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
