On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 03:45:45PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >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. Yeah, I'd guess something along those lines. The CD drive presents as SATA, but looks more like a PATA part. pci_request_regions fails when trying to load ahci. It's a Sonoma system (Dell Latitude D610) -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
