From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: ICH10R and Samsung HDS724040KLSA80 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:03:15 -0600 Message-ID: <494ED943.10904@shaw.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41428 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751343AbYLVADa (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:03:30 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LEYGc-0002hk-O6 for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:03:26 +0000 Received: from s0106000c41bb86e1.ss.shawcable.net ([70.76.47.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:03:26 +0000 Received: from hancockr by s0106000c41bb86e1.ss.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:03:26 +0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: n37 Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, n37 wrote: > >> I have a P5Q Deluxe motherboard which comes with ICH10R. One of my >> hard disks is a Samsung Deskstar 7K400 HDS724040KLSA80 >> (http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/7k400/7k400.htm). I have set >> ICH10R in AHCI mode in BIOS. It is almost impossible to get the hard >> disk to initialize properly. Here is the relevant portion of the >> kernel log: > > General question: Is it possible a/the drive is not AHCI-compliant? For > example if one uses older (non-3.0Gbps SATA drives) or IDE->SATA > converters, can one use AHCI with these drives or do they have to be > true sata drives w/out a bridge? It shouldn't matter. There's no such thing as a hard drive being AHCI compliant or not.