Uwe Koziolek дµÀ: >> hi, >> >> When we used 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 on ASUS sis-671 motherboard, We have some >> problem: cannot find the harddisk controller. >> In BIOS, the SATA mode is 2P+2IDE. >> >> The official kernel 2.6.18, 2.6.20 and new 2.6.21 does not work, i get >> some information about sata_sis 0.7.1 from you, may I get it ? >> >> We are so urgent, please help me. >> >> Thank you very much!!!! >> > Asus is selling a P5X-MX SE motherboard with a SiS968 > southbridge. The SiS671 Northbridge is not intresting for the SATA-support. > Currently it is only planned to support this chipset in > AHCI-mode. You should select the AHCI mode for the SATA-ports in the > BIOS. The ahci driver should support your board. > kernel 2.6.20 should be sufficient. > If this does not work, please provide the output of > lspci -vvxxx and the selected mode for the SATA-port. > > regards > Uwe Koziolek > > > > > > Sorry. I did not describe the problem correctly. Our OEM vendor used ASUS P5MSDZ-TVM and ECS 671T-MV, specially, they want to use sata harddisk and choose IDE mode for entering WinXP, and then want us to solve the IDE mode+SATA harddisk problem forcely. hehe. Can you give me some advice? attachment is lspci result and dmesg. Thank you very much!!!