> > my wife's ACER Aspire 5550 notebook has a ICH7 controller which is > > eternally in "legacy" mode - the crippled BIOS is doesn't offer any > > option to switch it to AHCI mode. It's basically running fine using the > > ata_piix driver, but it never comes out of resume, only the hard disk > > LED lights up and stays that way. > You could try Matthews patch to force-enable AHCI: > http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/ahci_quirk_cleanup.diff > Note you might have to remove the #if 0 for some chips. See > http://mjg59.livejournal.com/85504.html Thanks, this does exactly what I was planning to do, and in a cleaner fashion, too (I had forgotten about what quirks are for). I'll try the patch later today and post the results. Yours, Florian -- 0666 - Filemode of the Beast -- 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
