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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	acpi-support@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Supporting ACPI drive hotswap
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:14:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050924211415.GA26285@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4335ACE9.7070009@rtr.ca>

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@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-24 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-24 16:48 Supporting ACPI drive hotswap Matthew Garrett
2005-09-24 19:40 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-24 19:45   ` Mark Lord
2005-09-24 21:14     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-25  2:54 Bob Henry

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