From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Supporting ACPI drive hotswap Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:14:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20050924211415.GA26285@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20050924164823.GA24351@srcf.ucam.org> <20050924124050.1955c290.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <4335ACE9.7070009@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4335ACE9.7070009@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , acpi-support@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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