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From: Florian Echtler <floe@butterbrot.org>
To: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Switching ICH7 to AHCI mode?
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 10:45:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209977156.29633.25.camel@pancake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481E2FDB.6060903@tomt.net>

> > 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


      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-04 20:19 Switching ICH7 to ACPI mode? Florian Echtler
2008-05-04 21:51 ` Andre Tomt
2008-05-05  8:45   ` Florian Echtler [this message]

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