Craig Block wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having a problem getting Linux to handle the SATA drives and controllers on > a new computer with an ASUS M2N-X motherboard. This is a socket AM2 board and > has an nVidia nForce 520 chipset. It has three controller mode settings in the > BIOS, SATA, AHCI, and RAID. > > I built and tried a couple kernels, one with SATA_NV plus BLK_DEV_IDECD and the > other with SATA_AHCI plus PATA_AMD. > > With the controllers in SATA mode, the kernel built with SATA_NV doesn't see > the SATA controllers at all. The PATA CD drive links to hda and works > properly. I tried the same kernel on an nForce 4 system and everything works > right. > > With the controllers in AHCI mode, the kernel built with SATA_AHCI, hangs when > probing the SATA controllers. It literally takes about a minute to get through > each one. It never does link any drives to them. The PATA CD drive links to > sr0 and seems to work okay. > > I've had MS Windows working without issue in either mode, using the canned IDE > driver in SATA mode and the nVidia AHCI driver in AHCI mode. > > Output from "dmesg" and "lspci -n -vvv" commands is attached. Does 'noapic' kernel parameter help? -- tejun - 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
