[ltp] ata_piix on a t42p

[Carlos Moffat]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:38 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Mihai C??lin Bazon wrote:
> > Make sure you enable AHCI in your BIOS; otherwise the HDD will be in
> > backward compatibility mode (/dev/hda instead of /dev/sda).
> 
> No AHCI, (or SATA for that matter) in a T42, AFAIK. T43 has non-AHCI SATA in
> BIOS, and AHCI if you *really* screw with the chipset.  T60 and newer have
> AHCI in BIOS.
> 

You're right.

> It is probably the old IDE modules still loading before ata_piix, or
> ata_piix being a module and not in the initrd, etc.

Mmmh. I unset all the IDE stuff to make sure this wouldn't happen, but I
guess I still might need initrd, or something.

Thanks,
Carlos

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