Re: libata: ATA_PIIX missing ICH8M PCIIDs.

[Chr <chunkeey@web.de>]

On Monday, 18. June 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:20:06 +0200
> Chr <chunkeey@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I got a new laptop and I had a little problem that the DVD drive wasn't recognized by
> > libata's piix driver (but the old IDE Subsystem found it!).
> > 
> > So, after adding the new pciid 8086:2850 it works!
> > But, I don't know if it's ich_pata_100 or ich_pata_133 since the 
> > dvd/cd drives only goes up to udma2 speeds.
> 
> Its ich_pata_133 - all the newer chips are. They work even better if you
> set them into AHCI mode in the BIOS and then they should "just work" with
> recent kernels as the AHCI driver now matches by class.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 

No go.. I've tried 2.6.20-1-amd64 (debian sid) and a vanilla 2.6.22-rc5.

(The "problem" is that there are no options for that in the BIOS. 
The BIOS itself is only useful on these laptops, if you want to set a BIOS
password, setting the system clock or change the boot order... and nothing else)

Thanks,
        Chr.