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From: Erik Slagter <erik@slagter.name>
To: Michael Spiegle <mike@nauticaltech.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AHCI driver for ICH6M
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:29:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138793371.4449.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1138771289.15467.9.camel@localhost>

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> I was trying to use the AHCI driver included in kernel 2.6.15 to drive
> the SATA controller on my Asus Z71V laptop which supposedly has an ICH6M
> controller.  I noticed that the PCI ID of my controller shows up in the
> AHCI source code, so I assume that means I should have support.  I'm not
> terribly good with linux or C, but I think I was able to troubleshoot my
> issue down to a specific line of code.  Ultimately, I get the error:
> 
> ahci: probe of 0000:00:1f.2 failed with error -12

A very familiar problem. It means that your bios configures your ICH
chipset for legacy (or whatever name it has) mode, which means it will
respond to the old-fashioned IDE ports and IRQs. This also means you
cannot drive it in AHCI mode :-( unless there is an option in your BIOS
to switch between legacy and ahci mode, but afaik no single laptop has
this option. So you're on your own here :-( (just like me, btw).

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-01 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-01  5:21 AHCI driver for ICH6M Michael Spiegle
2006-02-01 11:29 ` Erik Slagter [this message]
2006-02-01 16:15   ` Michael Spiegle
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2006-02-01 11:33 Dominic ES. Ijichi

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