[ltp] ICH6M legacy hotswap?

Jim Duchek linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:53:36 -0600


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Hrm. I've seen a lot of traffic in that driver for the release candidates o=
f
2.6.16 -- perhaps you'll have better luck when .16 comes out.

Jim


On 28/02/06, Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/28/06, Jim Duchek <jim.duchek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think if you can get AHCI working, I can get lt_hotswap working with
> it .
>
> I tried switching this box from the ata_piix driver to the ahci
> driver. The ahci driver recognizes the ICH6M chip (it's on the
> whitelist of both drivers), but probing fails with error -12
> (-ENOMEM?! Does this make sense?).
>
> Anyway, the ICH6M is not initialized to AHCI mode by the BIOS (at
> least as judged by at ata_piix, since when using ata_piix,
> piix_disable_ahci() isn't called).
>
>   Shem
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Hrm. I've seen a lot of traffic in that driver for the release candidates o=
f 2.6.16 -- perhaps you'll have better luck when .16 comes out.<br><br>Jim<=
br><br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 28/02/06, <b class=3D"gmail_=
sendername">
Shem Multinymous</b> &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:multinymous@gmail.com">multinymo=
us@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=
=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; p=
adding-left: 1ex;">
On 2/28/06, Jim Duchek &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:jim.duchek@gmail.com">jim.duch=
ek@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; I think if you can get AHCI working, I =
can get lt_hotswap working with it .<br><br>I tried switching this box from=
 the ata_piix driver to the ahci
<br>driver. The ahci driver recognizes the ICH6M chip (it's on the<br>white=
list of both drivers), but probing fails with error -12<br>(-ENOMEM?! Does =
this make sense?).<br><br>Anyway, the ICH6M is not initialized to AHCI mode=
 by the BIOS (at
<br>least as judged by at ata_piix, since when using ata_piix,<br>piix_disa=
ble_ahci() isn't called).<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Shem<br>--<br>The linux-thinkp=
ad mailing list home page is at:<br><a href=3D"http://mailman.linux-thinkpa=
d.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad">
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad</a><br></=
blockquote></div><br>

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