From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
To: Florian Echtler <floe@butterbrot.org>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Switching ICH7 to ACPI mode?
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 23:51:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481E2FDB.6060903@tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209932346.29633.17.camel@pancake.floe.gotdns.org>
Florian Echtler wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-04 22:12 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 [this message]
2008-05-05 8:45 ` Switching ICH7 to AHCI mode? Florian Echtler
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