Re: Unknown SATA PIIX PCI device ID 0x29b6

Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-03-06T18:40:19Z

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Gaston, Jason D wrote:
> > If you disable the IDE Redirection in BIOS on that system, the 0x29b6
> > controller should not appear. If you are not using this, it would be
> > interesting to see if this effects what you are seeing.
>
> I think its fair to say that a certain amount of Linux users will inevitably
> have this option enabled in their BIOS. We should have a plan to deal with
> this sanely...?

Sorry, I am afraid, I caused a bit of confusion here. 0x29b6 I had when
BIOS configuration was set to "IDE". Then I couldn't use the 0x29b6 at
all, and therefore couldn't access the external eSATA disk at all. Then I
switched to AHCI, now all SATA hosts are on PCI ID 0x2922 and 0x29b6 is
also there as an IDE host unused...

So, now BIOS is set to "AHCI", all SATA hosts - internal and external are
on PCI ID 0x2922, and external needs a minute to start up, but then it
works fine.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski