From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: ASUS P5B and AHCI with 4 SATA drives (reminder) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:45:09 +0900 Message-ID: <45553935.7020508@gmail.com> References: <20061111002016.GA3742@mail.majes.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:35056 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946974AbWKKCpY (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:45:24 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so1523840nfa for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:45:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20061111002016.GA3742@mail.majes.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mathias Jeschke Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 -- tejun