Re: 2.6.18-rc7-git1: AHCI not seeing devices on ICH8 mobo (DG965RY)

Robin H. Johnson
2006-09-14T19:25:24Z

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:19:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> >[Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.]
> >
> >Recently picked up some new hardware (without sufficiently researching
> >it), and I have found that the AHCI driver does NOT see my SATA optical
> >device at all.
>
> >scsi1 : ahci
> >ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
> >scsi2 : ahci
> >ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
> >scsi3 : ahci
> >ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
> >scsi4 : ahci
> >ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
> Unfortunately the SATA phy isn't showing that a SATA device (hd or cdrom
> or anything) is connected. So can't do anything much at all, if that is
> the case.
>
> Perhaps re-check all the power connections, cables, etc.
I neglected to say, that the BIOS sees it perfectly fine, and the
initial boot sequence perfectly with ISOLINUX (everything just falls
over later when the initrd tries to load up a squashfs image from the
CD).