ASUS P5B and AHCI with 4 SATA drives (reminder)

ASUS P5B and AHCI with 4 SATA drives (reminder)

[Mathias Jeschke]

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Hallo kernel hackers,

as I mentioned in my last mail from 2006-08-31 [1],
the AHCI driver (ahci.c) from the default linux kernel tree
does not support all 4 ports of my ASUS P5B mainboard.
(only 2 of 4 hard discs)

I ask you, what is wrong with my patch I attached at the mail
to Jeff and this mailing-list?
I know that introducing a new kernel commandline argument is no smart
way to solve it, but better than no solution, yet. Isn't it?

Has anybody more details about that problem of detecting the right
number of physical ports and their mapping?

Regards,
Mathias

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115705276301404&w=2

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Re: ASUS P5B and AHCI with 4 SATA drives (reminder)

[Tejun Heo]

Mathias Jeschke wrote:
> Hallo kernel hackers,
> 
> as I mentioned in my last mail from 2006-08-31 [1],
> the AHCI driver (ahci.c) from the default linux kernel tree
> does not support all 4 ports of my ASUS P5B mainboard.
> (only 2 of 4 hard discs)
> 
> I ask you, what is wrong with my patch I attached at the mail
> to Jeff and this mailing-list?
> I know that introducing a new kernel commandline argument is no smart
> way to solve it, but better than no solution, yet. Isn't it?
> 
> Has anybody more details about that problem of detecting the right
> number of physical ports and their mapping?
> 
> Regards,
> Mathias
> 
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115705276301404&w=2

Hello, Mathias Jeschke.

The following fix is pending merge.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/13844/focus=13844

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tejun